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chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThat’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