Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
by phoe-krk on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @07:15AM
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> The 3% of Linux desktop users would disagree.
If we consider this statistic to be meaningful in this case, then 97% of people don't care. That's enough to be able to generalize.
> What I really fail to understand is why people don't hedge. They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a product, but never realize they can help fund an open alternative for a much lower cost, and that once the product does what they want, they won't lose access to it?
Discord is not a paid application. I've never paid them a cent in my years of using it.
If we consider this statistic to be meaningful in this case, then 97% of people don't care. That's enough to be able to generalize.
> What I really fail to understand is why people don't hedge. They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a product, but never realize they can help fund an open alternative for a much lower cost, and that once the product does what they want, they won't lose access to it?
Discord is not a paid application. I've never paid them a cent in my years of using it.