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So everything free should be filled with ads? Even FOSS?
by hericium 4y ago
So everything free should be filled with ads? Even FOSS?
- chrisseaton 4y agoWho said ‘should’? If that’s what the creators want what business is it of yours?
- hericium 4y ago> If that’s what the creators want what business is it of yours? Of course - users must want exactly what creators want and products are created by creators for creators.
- chrisseaton 4y agoPeople create what they want to create. If it’s not what you wanted that’s your problem not theirs.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoUsers aren't required to use it either
- chrisseaton 4y agoNobody said they were.
- ThunderSizzle 4y ago"If that’s what the creators want what business is it of yours?" If your goal with a program is to have users beyond yourself, then it becomes a dialogue. The question above implies that creators should always do whatever they want regardless of what users think about it. Of course creators can always say no/ignore users, and users can always go somewhere else. This has a greater effect when there's something financial on the line (e.g. people leaving a subscription for a better competitor)
- chrisseaton 4y agoThey should do what they want worrying about the customers that matter to them. They don’t have to worry what you as an individual care about. How much were you paying them? Submit a ticket to your paid support agent if you want them to listen to you. Otherwise… stop complaining about how this free thing isn’t how you want it.
- krageon 4y agoWell, because it's OSS my business would be to fork and patch it.
- chrisseaton 4y agoYeah you can already do that. So what’s the problem?
- chriswarbo 4y agoFOSS can always be forked, which puts some pressure on developers/maintainers to not be too egregious. This is hardly new BTW. I remember switching from LimeWire to FrostWire to avoid ads a couple of decades ago.
- ianai 4y agoI don't remember limewire being FOSS.
- chriswarbo 4y agoIt's GPL, and as far as I remember always was. For example https://lwn.net/Articles/143220 https://lwn.net/Articles/143220 LimeWire: Open source brings commercial success (NewsForge) [Posted July 11, 2005 by corbet] NewsForge looks at the business behind LimeWire, an open source Gnutella client. ""On the development side, LimeWire LLC engages open source developers by paying bounties for features. Small bounties, listed as being 'good for beginners,' pay $50; medium bounties, 'good for learning the intricacies of the code,' pay $200; and large bounties, for projects that are 'difficult, but very useful,' pay $500.""