On 16-07-07 01:18am, Renato Alves wrote: > To be honest I'm not even sure there's an issue here. I've never heard > of something called "free open-source that costs money". The first part > negates the second.
That is incorrect. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > Ardour was mentioned but I can't find a single reference to a "required > donation" on their website: https://ardour.org . The wiki is the first > page with any $ on it. There they mention a subscription model and > promise "unlimited updates". To me this only makes sense if you are > using the binary releases not if building from source. https://ardour.org/download.html “Buy”, “Subscribe”, ”Free Demo” are quite clear in my opinion. See also the first FAQ directy under the table. If you want another example: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/download.php > So in short, as long as the code is truly free and open-source, whatever > monetization system is used by the project (donationware, niceware, > binaryware ...), it's the developers responsibility to figure out how > they ask their users for money. This toxic idea is the reason free software is where it is today. But I digress. -- Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me.
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