Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
talos@lemmy.world 9 months agoI built a new PC two months ago and it’s the first time I didn’t get Office. Libre Office has everything I need and it’s free.
Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
talos@lemmy.world 9 months agoI built a new PC two months ago and it’s the first time I didn’t get Office. Libre Office has everything I need and it’s free.
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I’ve wondered about free suites like these - how do they make money, do you know?
insomniac@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
They don’t. Libre Office is maintained by a non-profit called The Document Foundation. They’re funded entirely by donations. I think they make enough to have some full time employees.
A lot of open source software is created by individuals or non-profits. The Mozilla foundation makes Firefox, for instance. They make money through donations and also Google pays them a ton of money to be the default search engine.
There are for profit companies that make open source software. Such as Red Hat. They tend to make money by selling support for the software.
talos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t think they make money. It’s an open source project where people donate their time as far as I know.
LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 9 months ago
A bit of donations, a bit of unpaid people contributing just to help others.
ebits21@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Donations. Volunteers.