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>Free software is in this day and age not sustainable and using it it without contributing a dime is parasitic and detrimental to the health of the sw industry.

>Free software is in this day and age not sustainable and using it it without contributing a dime is parasitic and detrimental to the health of the sw industry. That is completely untrue. Merely using free software has no negative effect on it's continued development. Even filing issues and bug reports are contributions if they are of high enough quality. And in fact, many projects allow you to buy support or new features for money. >funded by mega corporations doing it to kill the smaller competition. That's also untrue. Companies profit in a myriad of ways by providing their software as free software. EDIT: to the flagged reply below: - OpenJDK is currently funded by Oracle - start with these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-sourc... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_economics

theredbox 7y ago
That is completely delusional. I am sorry to say this but promoting FOSS as an alternative to anything is to put it simply ignorant. Have not we learned from the OpenSSL fiasco ? Have not we done the same mistake with openjdk? Who do you think is paying for openjdk development ? Donations ? Dont make me laugh. These devs are not even earning an average wages for Europe not talking about avg salaries in the Tech Sector for the US. Filing bugs wont bring food on the table. Filing bugs wont pay for your electricity bills. I’d love to hear about your myriad of ways companies profit out of making their software FOSS. For not so trivial things the contribution is minimal (think compilers) see eg RubyMotion.
papermachete 7y ago
Not good enough. I want to make money with my apps. I support the idea of shipping the source upon purchase only.
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- rovr138 7y ago
  Welcome to open source. That’s a perfectly valid business model for open source software and there are people and companies using it.
  - papermachete 7y ago
    I believe it's against GPL to hide the source like that.

theredbox 7y ago

That is completely delusional. I am sorry to say this but promoting FOSS as an alternative to anything is to put it simply ignorant. Have not we learned from the OpenSSL fiasco ? Have not we done the same mistake with openjdk? Who do you think is paying for openjdk development ? Donations ? Dont make me laugh. These devs are not even earning an average wages for Europe not talking about avg salaries in the Tech Sector for the US. Filing bugs wont bring food on the table. Filing bugs wont pay for your electricity bills. I’d love to hear about your myriad of ways companies profit out of making their software FOSS. For not so trivial things the contribution is minimal (think compilers) see eg RubyMotion.

papermachete 7y ago

Not good enough. I want to make money with my apps. I support the idea of shipping the source upon purchase only.

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rovr138 7y ago
Welcome to open source. That’s a perfectly valid business model for open source software and there are people and companies using it.
- papermachete 7y ago
  I believe it's against GPL to hide the source like that.