• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I can handle that.

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

      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?

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        2 months 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