real reasons why people DON'T use opensource:
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*I need money and I made this.
I don't like capitalism, but I am forced to live with it. I idealize open source software; but if I made a thing nobody else thought of, I'm sorry but I'm going to try and get paid so I don't have to live in the gutter.
wrote last edited by [email protected]False dichotomy. You can get paid for writing open source software. That was my entire career. It's a choice; a matter of values and priorities. Not every byte I wrote was open source, especially in the beginning, but it's not hard to go that way, and thrive.
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Open source software is a minor miracle. I consider the people who give away their hard work saints. That doesn’t mean they can’t also be assholes. We have a bunch of different distributions of multiple full-featured operating systems. Credit where credit is due.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Many of the developers who worked on your favorite and most critical FOSS projects got paid. PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT! It is a fantastic model that is fair to everyone and enriches humanity.
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real reasons why people DON'T use opensource:
- bugs in apps with no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )
- assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )
- enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )
- and if all of the above combined it just creates resistance against opensourcesmall opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…
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In proprietary stuff the bugs just don't get fixed, ever. And you can't ask
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In proprietary stuff there aren't even communities and if you try to make one nintendo puts you in prison
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Okay this is really impossible in proprietary stuff as there it can't get worse (wait, no, adobe exists)
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