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joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Cut them off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

As much as I like FOSS it's significantly harder to fund.

With proprietary you keep the source code, ship the app, collect data & sell it, and charge for a premium /subscription. They then use that money to fund talented devs and give them deadlines to make good software.

With FOSS it's largely contribution work by people who work on it in their free time. They use donations or paying for enterprise support, and if they do add a subscription service / premium version you can just modify the code and get it for free.

That's largely why FOSS software is behind, what's the direct incentive for someone to make it good?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Linux pros: You have control over everything Linux cons: You have control over everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sounds more like they don't want any users

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Honestly I don't think there's a truly good git hosting website right now.

GitLab works if you wanna get away from Micro$oft but the UI is all over the place. Every other alternative either has an infinitely worse UI or charges money to use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

iPhone is slowly becoming more like android, and android is slowly becoming more like iphone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you're networked with the right people in the US, laws don't matter