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This is what you get for not supporting FOSS, especially R&D. Imagine if every company took 5-10% of their IT budget to sponsor alternatives to the products th
by rglullis 5y ago
This is what you get for not supporting FOSS, especially R&D.
Imagine if every company took 5-10% of their IT budget to sponsor alternatives to the products they need, even if they were not using it. Take every marketing agency that subscribes to Adobe Suite, and get them to sponsor Gimp/Krita/Inkscape/etc. Every startup using Google Apps/Office365/Slack/Dropbox, get them to donate just $5/employee/month to Free and Open alternatives.
It would be a win-win. Best case scenario, the OSS alternative becomes a viable substitute. Worst case, SaaS providers will have to continously push prices down and/or innovate.