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It’s not necessarily ideologically inconsistent if people believe they should primarily be paying for materials/consumables. I do think it makes sense that peop
by reaperman 2y ago
It’s not necessarily ideologically inconsistent if people believe they should primarily be paying for materials/consumables. I do think it makes sense that people should have to pay reasonable amounts for labor as well, but it’s unfortunate that there are very few options to both pay for something and have control over its source code and self-hosting and some of the trust in the long term that we have with free software.
- glimshe 2y agoThe main option right now for what you described is to contribute labor or money to open source projects, which many people do - but not nearly enough. The sad reality is that the vast majority of people, even well meaning ones, don't want to pay for things if they don't have to. And it is generally the case that if you are paying for something, you have a societally accepted moral standing to complain about it as a paying customer.