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   Lennard van Otterloo (lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:17:17 JST Lennard van Otterloo

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   • Neil Brown
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   @VModifiedMind @neil I feel that one problem many FOSS projects have is that they only offer donations whereas a donation can be quite hard to account for in a company’s books.

   If, however, a FOSS project offers something (and it can be really minor) that can be sold with an invoice then it’s suddenly just a purchase for a company.

   With a subscription you run the risk of regular cost-cutting reviews, a one-off purchase is easier to justify.

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     • Neil Brown

     @neil Not directly related, but we were discussing potentially using some FOSS software the other day that has some paid for options - support being one of the benefits, not that we felt we need support. But universally we felt we should buy it because we want to support the people who primarily write it and help make it sustainable. I was quite happy that there was not just a lack of resistance to paying, but an immediate 'we should just' attitude.