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Not hating on open source, just let people use what fits their expectations and needs and stop deterring them with gatekeeping :P

UX = user experience

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the three options for him to keep developing that we know of are 1) Ads 2) Pay for a license or 3) Fundraising. He offers 1 and 2, and 3 is well known to not work, seriously nobody donates. Check out npm fund and how so little people used it that they just removed it.

If your only argument is "I deserve things that took a lot of time and effort for free" then you aren't getting much sympathy from me.

[–] trafficnab@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your only argument is “I deserve things that took a lot of time and effort for free” then you aren’t getting much sympathy from me.

Well, the user is posting from the piracy instance

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out npm fund

Instructions unclear, I ran the command and now I have a shitcoin called Bitcoin Cash.

[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off topic, but I just have to ask.. is your name a reference to the IBM database technology? Lol

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago