It will puzzle me forever how little developers are willing to pay for software (or content).
There are so many loud people complaining about bugs, privacy, or ads, but yet many expect everything to be "free and open source."
It's so strange because developers usually know how long things take. 🤔
There are so many loud people complaining about bugs, privacy, or ads, but yet many expect everything to be "free and open source."
It's so strange because developers usually know how long things take. 🤔
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But still:
Complaining about bugs in free software is not ok.
Complaining about ads on a free blog is also not ok.
And somehow people are surprised when there are privacy implications in free services. No kidding... 😅
But pushing or expecting a fix can quickly go into complaining. The tone matters a lot in open source issues.
In my own experience, I was once shamed on GH and social media for breaking one of my packages. No help, no understanding, just blame for a mistake in my free software.
Today, I try to respond to these things with a "Well, don't use my free software. Don't read my free blog. Don't subscribe to my free newsletter". 🤷
Nobody owes anything to anybody.
"Sure. Would you pay for this product you love and that we spent thousands of hours to build?"
"Nah... I rather use something 'open source' then."
This whole conflict is so strange and fascinating. 😅
But it makes me so happy to use and support indie hackers (Polypane, ScreenStudio, CompressX). I def should support more content providers, though.
But this attitude and "entitlement to free stuff" really confuses me.
I think it's healthy to not expect anything from free stuff... 🤷♂️
If it's Microsoft getting me to adopt their ecosystem to make money off of me eventually, I think it's fair to expect that ecosystem to work.
If we wouldn't expect everything to be free we maybe wouldn't have situation?
If one consumes paid media, searches via a paid search engine and values the things to consume there would be way less tracking.
We're just coming from different angles. Seems like you're coming from "everything's free by default" angle and I'm simply questioning this.
Nothing is free. :)
Thank you!
This time alone is already worth more than $5 or whatever. :D
I can’t begin to think of how many hours of tedious work tools like CodeKit* has saved me for $40 a year
* I’m not affiliated it is just Tony the Tiger kind of grrreat
https://codekitapp.com
But as a buyer I am just person. What do you mean $100 a year? You are not as valuable as O365 or AI tool
There were points I wanted to rage quit.