The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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    -171 year ago

    Why don’t you just gift away your software than? That’s an honest question. You obviously aren’t expecting to be paid for it, do you think in general developers shouldn’t earn money with software or is it just you?

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      201 year ago

      Why don’t you just gift away your software than?

      Because I don’t make those decisions; my employer does. They ought to give it away, but they don’t.

      (The software I’ve worked on has tended to be either (a) tools for internal company use or (b) stuff used by the government/large companies where the revenue would definitely have come from a support contract even if the code itself were free.)

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      161 year ago

      I am a system engineer who works on a project that is open source, AMA

    • @psud@aussie.zone
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      81 year ago

      The writer whose article is the subject of this post releases his books without DRM. He ends his podcast with a quote encouraging piracy. I found him because of an earlier book he released under a share alike licence

      He has found that piracy increases the reach of his message, and increases his sales

    • db0
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      01 year ago

      Software developer who gives away my software for free as Free and Open Source Software. I agree with the grand-grand-parent comment.