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This is timely, I recently commented about paying for software [0], professional software is very expensive, but it's very expensive to create. There's thankle

This is timely, I recently commented about paying for software [0], professional software is very expensive, but it's very expensive to create. There's thankless work such as programming language development, operating systems (Linux), databases and Linux distributions that are profoundly valuable. Even just wrangling them from a devops perspective is painful though. I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C. I kind of want a community of people that help run a sideproject PaaS and solve the things I would prefer not to work on. Servers that are up-to-date and patched and scalable and robust. I use OmniNotes on my Android phone, I use FreeFileSync, Typora (paid software), IntelliJ Community. What's a price that you would pay pay for your open source software? If it was like Spotify, spotify is like $9.99 a month and apparently 210 million susbcribers according to Bing search "spotify number of subscribers". That's a fair amount of people's living costs to pay for. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827698

ochoseis 3y ago
> I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C. You’ve almost certainly paid for them, just not directly. Some share of the cost in the supply chain that delivers you goods and services will inevitably end up with the large enterprises who sponsor or develop those projects.
- mistrial9 3y ago
  by eliminating all actors on the stage and referring solely to "large enterprises", welded unequivocally to ".. who pay for this" the entire ecosystem is reduced to absurd oversimplification. It is both insulting to the others who participate, and bone-headed wrong about where "resources" come from in this unusual, modern ecosystem.
  - ochoseis 3y ago
    The assertion was that even if it doesn’t feel like it, you support open source indirectly. It was not that all funding or contributions are made by large enterprises. I applaud efforts to more directly support projects that give you utility. It’s becoming easier for individuals to do that (as evidenced by the article).

ochoseis 3y ago

> I've never paid for any of the work that went into Ubuntu, Python or Java (I use Corretto) or MySQL or C. You’ve almost certainly paid for them, just not directly. Some share of the cost in the supply chain that delivers you goods and services will inevitably end up with the large enterprises who sponsor or develop those projects.

mistrial9 3y ago
by eliminating all actors on the stage and referring solely to "large enterprises", welded unequivocally to ".. who pay for this" the entire ecosystem is reduced to absurd oversimplification. It is both insulting to the others who participate, and bone-headed wrong about where "resources" come from in this unusual, modern ecosystem.
- ochoseis 3y ago
  The assertion was that even if it doesn’t feel like it, you support open source indirectly. It was not that all funding or contributions are made by large enterprises. I applaud efforts to more directly support projects that give you utility. It’s becoming easier for individuals to do that (as evidenced by the article).