• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Except this makes them a LOT more money than what you’re suggesting, and also theyre trying to normalise the winrar model in oss

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        Foss and community driven is just that, not money making . This is not foss anymore

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        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

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          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