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Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears (davelane.nz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can handle that.

its a donation
its a presumably good product I want to continue to be funded and developed
once a year

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if it weren't a donation? What if the situation were a once annual subscription where your use of the software is reliant on that subscription cost?

Yes, I realize KDE is still open source, but what if they did this anyways?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Then thats a no. I'm not getting anything embedded in my workflow that can randomly decide it can't work because the mother-ship is down or the business model needs to change.

Edit: all software business models in general need to embrace this. Charge more if ya have to or provide the essential features initially and then use nice-to-haves as the gain-winners going forward. Thats really how it should be with everything