• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    As if the majority of you will ever donate to a FOSS dev. This is one of the reasons I went into open source hardware instead. At least you can’t easily copy a PCB, you have to build your own or buy mine. I’m not a corporation. I’m a dude living in the ghettos of Baltimore trying to do my hustle and live.

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    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      It’s kinda sad honestly. It really shows that people misplace their understanding of who the class war is against

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      Considering most lemmy users were literally the whiniest and most entitled reddit users that got run off the platform, it shouldn’t surprise anybody.

      I say this knowing full well that I am one of that whiny reddit users that came to lemmy

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      ikr? appreciate that they came to lemmy and gave us a polished experience on android

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    I make open source software; for several years it was completely foss and it never managed to keep the lights on on its own. When we started adding paid features (still open, but not free), it didn’t go well with the community at all.

    Folks would suggest all sorts of business models which always boiled down to “do make money from it, just not from me”.

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    Software that will one day stop being supported because people will only use FOSS apps. They won’t contribute in terms of feedback (that helps improve User Experience and as a result improve the use of that app) or in terms of donation.

    They will only use it and roam around with an air of superiority about using FOSS over proprietary.

    This is why FOSS has issues. Gatekeepers who won’t do shit to contribute, but only make fun of and call out people who actually do some shit.

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        as someone who regularily donates to the FOSS projects that I use, I can tell you it is not about the money. It’s about the freedom that FOSD brings

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    Have you ever looked at linux kernel CLs? Many of the more substantial ones come from someone @intel.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, etc.

  • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You clearly haven’t looked at the options and feature set of sync. It would be the muscular bodybuilder in this analogy.