Comment on Immich x FUTO Q&A
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Weird feeling about this. $5-$20 flat fee sounds like a lower price than what I’d imagine donations would bring. I imagine most who would donate would give at least $5-20, and then some would subscribe monthly.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Yeah I dunno. I sent them $50 as soon as I came across this amazing software.
I think FUTO is trying to make FOSS sustainable by unmistakably asking for money. I’m not sure how much more effective that will be than just asking for donations externally…
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Me too, I subbed for monthly.
The one thing I can see FUTO can do is provide capital up front for developers to work which could be recouped over time as more users begin to use and pay for the software. That makes sense and in a competent, not neoliberal economy, the government might have a fund doing something like that. What I’m a bit worried about is that this isn’t all Eron’s up to. But again, we’ll take his money when he gives it, so long as the work is open source. And we’ll see where we end up in a few years. 😅
twei@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Germany has a fund like that, GNOME just recently got a grant of about 1M Euros to improve features and provide better accessibility
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
grayjay is not foss
twei@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
The only thing I can see in their License that would make it non-free is the non-commercial redistribution part of it, which is not that bad
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Which might be there to prevent legal troubles from YouTube.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
it is. It prevents people from forking it an making their own versions and then distrubuting it. That is not foss,just source availible.