▲ 571 ▼ Paying for free software (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml 91 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (3 children) Id pay taxes to support open source projects. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] aeharding@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Those in the EU do with NLNet! (Although arguably not nearly enough) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago Yeah def not enough. It's funny how governments and companies are willing to pay overpriced proprietary software that even comes with no or horrible support, but when they use OSS they hardly contribute and sometimes even get great support via github. But sometimes that's also the other way around. You pay for expensive license and get shitty support even if it's OSS. Looking at you Teleport permalink fedilink source parent [–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago As European, thatvis not true in my case! (I get funded by them) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Those in the EU do with NLNet! (Although arguably not nearly enough) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago Yeah def not enough. It's funny how governments and companies are willing to pay overpriced proprietary software that even comes with no or horrible support, but when they use OSS they hardly contribute and sometimes even get great support via github. But sometimes that's also the other way around. You pay for expensive license and get shitty support even if it's OSS. Looking at you Teleport permalink fedilink source parent [–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago As European, thatvis not true in my case! (I get funded by them) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago Yeah def not enough. It's funny how governments and companies are willing to pay overpriced proprietary software that even comes with no or horrible support, but when they use OSS they hardly contribute and sometimes even get great support via github. But sometimes that's also the other way around. You pay for expensive license and get shitty support even if it's OSS. Looking at you Teleport permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago As European, thatvis not true in my case! (I get funded by them) permalink fedilink source parent