Buy software, once Say goodbye to subscription fatigue! Discover software you can buy once and own forever–no recurring charges, just tools that work for you, for life.
Buy software, once Say goodbye to subscription fatigue! Discover software you can buy once and own forever–no recurring charges, just tools that work for you, for life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages
Buy never software
Donate when you can tho
And contribute if you can’t.
For non-programmers: Yes, reporting bugs, writing docs, and answering questions is contributing.
Edit: Fun story, the best contributor I ever had was someone who randomly reproduced reported bugs and filled in the details about how they did it.
I use almost exclusively FOSS and I have monthly/annual contributions set up for various projects.
Act like a real man. But free and open source software because the devs deserve your money for their free work
The idea that software developers should work only for ‘tips’ makes it basically impossible to be an independent developer and be a responsible adult.
You either become a ‘big boy’ and work for an established software house or make games where people don’t have such a stigma to pay small developers for their talent and effort.
Workers should be compensated for their work. That means sometimes paying for software.
This clearly isn’t true though, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much FOSS software.
Foss lives and thrives on passion and unpaid contributions. That can be fine but it’s also necessary to actually purchase software so that individuals or small groups can get paid.
How do I even compensate the random programmer who spend 30 hours fixing a bug on a foss project I use?
Especially when in the context of this post which is about software you can buy to own there should be some willingness to spend money on software.
Correct. While there are many (good) programs available for no money, that is charity based on desire and passion.
Free in FOSS isn’t about price, it’s about freedom.
Which is great. But… This whole thread is in response to a comment that states to “never buy software”