Follow up on supporting Immich announcement Hello everybody, Alex from Immich here. What a controversy that we caused with the choice of wording, right? My personal apology to you all. On behalf of...
I’m talking about optional donations via something like Librepay. For instance, Thunderbird prompts you to donate on first launch. The raised about a million dollars doing that. It was non invasive and easily dismissible
They stopped accepting donations, like 2 months ago, but they accepted donations before, you know how much money they made off donations? Less than they made off the liscence in the first day it was released
That may be true but the license thing was dishonest because no one was really unlicensed in any way. That is like saying I could rake in a lot more money committing fraud than conducting legitimate business.
I mean this comment well. You seem to be clueless about the problems open source projects are facing. Free work and hopefully the maintainer doesn’t burn out before he can hand the torch to another person.
Except this makes them a LOT more money than what you’re suggesting, and also theyre trying to normalise the winrar model in oss
I’m talking about optional donations via something like Librepay. For instance, Thunderbird prompts you to donate on first launch. The raised about a million dollars doing that. It was non invasive and easily dismissible
They stopped accepting donations, like 2 months ago, but they accepted donations before, you know how much money they made off donations? Less than they made off the liscence in the first day it was released
That may be true but the license thing was dishonest because no one was really unlicensed in any way. That is like saying I could rake in a lot more money committing fraud than conducting legitimate business.
Foss and community driven is just that, not money making . This is not foss anymore
I mean this comment well. You seem to be clueless about the problems open source projects are facing. Free work and hopefully the maintainer doesn’t burn out before he can hand the torch to another person.