3 ms·
People who buy things expect quality, service, and interoperability. In my experience, FOSS projects often have the quality, but they lack service (they may ig
by vharuck 3y ago
People who buy things expect quality, service, and interoperability. In my experience, FOSS projects often have the quality, but they lack service (they may ignore suggestions or unusual bugs). Interoperability is usually left as an exercise for the user.
If a user buys a binary, the seller should expect demands for work or a refund. But people don't expect refunds for donations. And it takes a lot of money to attach strings to a donation.
- mistrial9 3y agoall valid, until the ubiquity of modern net use. Many people dont make individual purchases, instead they subscribe to bundled services which in turn gate-keep at a company store. The amounts of money moving in walled-gardens now are vastly larger than any individual products ever saw.