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tostiyesterday at 11:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

Oh come on. If you can create a better program without ever asking for donations, feel free to do so.


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p-e-wyesterday at 12:10 PM

This is a bad argument. Established things are established. “If you don’t like what the president of your country is doing, just run for the office yourself.”

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accountofthahayesterday at 12:19 PM

Okay cool, I don't ask for donations. Instead I just sell my product, something like a Office 2024 license. 120 Eur a year, but feel free to use it as long as you like. That's what I bought recently. I don't want Microsoft 365 with the cloud storage, I pay Dropbox for that and use some other client to use it basically as a extra storage device for backups. I just need an Office suite, Excel, Word, Powerpoint. Yes: LibreOffice is nice and all, but doesn't work for MY needs.

But I get your point: having a succesful Open Source (FLOSS) app without dono's isn't possible, you need to have some to make it work anyhow.