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> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who h
by leakycap 1y ago
> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host
Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise?
> and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship
Corpo sponsorship required for success? I guess I better tell all the open-source projects being used by millions that they're just hobbyists now.
> The problem [...] everything digital [...] Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?
I have heard of analog world nostalgia, but you refer to the pre-digital age as if you didn't live through it. It's easier to locate someone today than ever before.
- throw-the-towel 1y agoCan you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?
- headsman771 1y agoThis implies corporate sponsorship is a requirement for, as opposed to result of, a projects usefulness. That has not been the case for most valuable open source software.
- tomrod 1y agoWho sponsors curl?
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- smj-edison 1y agoOBS and Audacity (until recently) are two off the top of my head. Plus a lot of Linux components are run solely by a couple people, and those are run my millions of programmers.
- sokoloff 1y agoGNU? Depending on how you want to treat FSF and PSF, gcc, emacs, python (are FSF/PSF/Apache corporations? Does PSF’s donations from corporations make python corporate sponsored?)
- leakycap 1y agoNever heard of Monero? Keepass only allows donations, with no benefits for corporate vs. personal sponsors GIMP is one of the most widely known & its sponsors only lists a few companies as hardware donors VLC anyone?