• LinkOpensChest.wav@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I suspect you’d hear a lot fewer complaints about paying the developer if the software were open source

    People willingly donate to FOSS projects all the time. Hell, some devs even have a problem with people constantly wanting to donate when they explicitly can’t/won’t accept donations

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      1 year ago

      Donations don’t generate nearly as much money as purchases. I like open source just as much as the next person, but there’s no way that I could afford to drop my job and go full time into an open source project. Looking at Lemmy’s donations for example, the annual budget on OpenCollective is, at this time, ~$10k (which is significantly below US minimum wage at least), and their Patreon link shows $1650/mo. It’s a nice chunk of cash, but not sustainable.

      One approach I’ve really liked is what Aseprite does. You can buy the precompiled product, or you can clone the repository and build it yourself. Most users won’t build it, so they get paid and still get to share the code with the community.

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        1 year ago

        Ok? But this is a completely different tangent. I was replying to a person who was claiming the primary reason that people dislike sync is that they don’t want the dev to get paid, when clearly that is not the case.