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Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoThis is what people don’t realize. If you want something good, you have to pay people for their time and talent. Free products that are free because of ideology are just exploitation with extra steps.
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a good reason for people to take the money they would have spent buying a proprietary solution and instead donate that money to an open source project.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The problem is people don’t put their money where their mouth is. Even less in the scale needed to produce a product of the quality te average person expects. You see this again and again. It’s very nice to think it works, but it doesn’t. A random guy saying “actchually I donated 1 Monero” doesn’t mean a project is financially sustainable.
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re right. Unfortunately, open-source has proven time and time again to be unsustainable and burn maintainers out