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FOSS Devs Rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Alt: proprietary software devs trying to live off their work as their primary income source while still allowing people to use their product for free

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago

Get out of here with a level-headed response. We came to rabble.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

I swear, lemmy users have proven to be so entitled. Just don't buy it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it spies on me, if it shows me ads, then it's not free.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I think a lot of the people who are against are the ones who don't like the ad-removal model, because you are paying to remove ads on an app that uses a platform whose foundation is built against ads and tracking. The subscription model or one-time payment for life is fair IMO; people are free to support the dev (and please support the lemmy devs and instance admins too!). It's the ads (and tracking that come with it) that's kinda weird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As an end-user I believe I am entitled to the freedom to use, modify, and share the software I use. If your business model is incompatible with my values I won't support you, simple as. I don't have any problem monetarily supporting developers but not if they disagree with my principles.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact argument made against ad-blockers, too.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You do have the freedom to modify the proprietary binary you're being given. You just can't distribute your modifications.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it's not free. Which is the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Irrelevant to the point I'm making. Whether something is open source or not does not impact your freedom to modify it, just the freedom to distribute your modifications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No it's not you just don't understand that withouth collective control you can't have individual control.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Reality: what you pay goes more to monetization than the user experience