Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by zanny on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:07AM
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Blender, Krita, and Inkscape are all excellent in their domains. What is this nonsense about free software can't have good UX?
> copy other people's work and then make it free, causing people to lose their jobs?
Wikipedia is a fully free project and the foundation employs ~300 people funded mostly by an annual donation drive. Free software != no jobs.
And I really don't want to get into it, but for a lot of free software advocates extorting money from people for licenses using legally granted artificial monopoly of scarcity on software you don't even have to disclose for the cost is highly unethical.
> copy other people's work and then make it free, causing people to lose their jobs?
Wikipedia is a fully free project and the foundation employs ~300 people funded mostly by an annual donation drive. Free software != no jobs.
And I really don't want to get into it, but for a lot of free software advocates extorting money from people for licenses using legally granted artificial monopoly of scarcity on software you don't even have to disclose for the cost is highly unethical.