I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

I’ve always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let’s change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    205·
    10 months ago

    The thing is

    • its a shame that enthusiasts dont donate. How?
    • the biggest problem is normies using FOSS and never donating a cent
      • LoETR9@feddit.it
        6·
        10 months ago

        What do you mean? In most OSS that i use (surely all KDE apps) there is a donate button in the menu bar that opens a webpage with a PayPal button… I don’t know how easier could it be.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        It may remove the “weakest link in the chain” and does not support surveillance capitalist companies. It also makes the software more known.

        In the end the biggest cost is development, which stays the same.

        I also have the feelig total normies dont annoy in forums or with bug reports / feature requests, like many Linux users do in some time of their evolution XD