“Non-profit organizations” that sounds like the minority of developers. Most projects are from single developers that just throw their project on github et al. and release it from there.
“Non-profit organizations” that sounds like the minority of developers. Most projects are from single developers that just throw their project on github et al. and release it from there.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 3 months ago
True but if you’re a for-profit developer, you can probably afford 50 cents per customer. Facebook, for example, has a “free” app that earned $134 billion last year. I’m not defending Apple, I think the Core Technology Fee is anti-competitive and I hope the EU tells them it’s illegal - but 50c is pocket change for nearly any for-profit app developer.
Small startups don’t pay (less than a million users), and most open source projects with more than a million users are non-profits. The ones that are not could become one or tie themselves to an existing non profit (such as the Apache Foundation, which provides funding and resources to almost 300 open source projects).