As if the majority of you will ever donate to a FOSS dev. This is one of the reasons I went into open source hardware instead. At least you can't easily copy a PCB, you have to build your own or buy mine. I'm not a corporation. I'm a dude living in the ghettos of Baltimore trying to do my hustle and live.
As if the majority of you will ever donate to a FOSS dev
With love from a user of aforementioned minority
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Wait is there a market for custom/open-source hardware? If so where?
Tindie.com is where I'm at. Most products there are open source.
That’s p interesting and something I could see myself doing.
How’s the revenue steam for you?
The irony of a Marxist-Leninist instance devaluing someone's labor is just chef's kiss
It's kinda sad honestly. It really shows that people misplace their understanding of who the class war is against
lemmy becoming as whiney and as entitled as reddit users
Considering most lemmy users were literally the whiniest and most entitled reddit users that got run off the platform, it shouldn't surprise anybody.
I say this knowing full well that I am one of that whiny reddit users that came to lemmy
This is why we can't have nice things.
Things cost money.
Boo hoo really.
Free doesn't mean gratis
Sync is the best lemmy app I've used.
ikr? appreciate that they came to lemmy and gave us a polished experience on android
My God this is the whiniest post I've seen on the topic yet.
I make open source software; for several years it was completely foss and it never managed to keep the lights on on its own. When we started adding paid features (still open, but not free), it didn't go well with the community at all.
Folks would suggest all sorts of business models which always boiled down to "do make money from it, just not from me".
Software that will one day stop being supported because people will only use FOSS apps. They won't contribute in terms of feedback (that helps improve User Experience and as a result improve the use of that app) or in terms of donation.
They will only use it and roam around with an air of superiority about using FOSS over proprietary.
This is why FOSS has issues. Gatekeepers who won't do shit to contribute, but only make fun of and call out people who actually do some shit.
do donate then ya twats
This is the way. Either by money or other types of contributions.
A bad take if I’ve ever seen one.
Fucking cry about it.
stop crying
Trash smugposting bro
"i want free shit waaa waaa" is all i see in these self righteous posts
as someone who regularily donates to the FOSS projects that I use, I can tell you it is not about the money. It's about the freedom that FOSD brings
You clearly haven't looked at the options and feature set of sync. It would be the muscular bodybuilder in this analogy.
Have you ever looked at linux kernel CLs? Many of the more substantial ones come from someone @intel.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, etc.
Holy ratio batman