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   LAYERED (layered@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 10:43:28 JST LAYERED

   This is a real shame!
   #Blender has SO MANY users, unfortunately nearly no one gives a shit about donating the creator. What a parasitic mindset.

   Something like that really annoys me! I am a software developer myself. And I always wonder what people are actually thinking? This “everything should be free” attitude really makes me angry.

   // Rant over.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1FcYknxEY0

   You can donate here:
   https://fund.blender.org/

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 08:34:19 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • NatsumeShokogami
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     @natsume_shokogami That’s not special to Free Software.

     It is an attitude that is widespread within left-leaning idealistic circles.

     I once wrote about that in German:
     https://www.1w6.org/deutsch/anhang/gedanken/der-will-ja-nur-geld-machen

     title: "he just wants to make money"
     TLDR: what’s wrong in the sentence is the word "just". Because if you’re serious about your project, you should search a way that allows you to work full time on it.

     @tino76H @layered

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     NatsumeShokogami (natsume_shokogami@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 08:34:20 JST NatsumeShokogami

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     @tino76H @layered Most users involved with open source for some reasons hate when people nagging them to donate, like many are outspoken about hating #Wikipedia and #InternetArchive (is in financial trouble due to legal issues) nagging them to donate. Even when #KDE added feature to do that just once a year and can be disabled, it's still controversial enough. Also most users tend to conflate between #OpenSource / #FreeSoftware (free as in freedom) with #Freeware so this does not help as well

     Arne Babenhauserheide repeated this.
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     💚 (tino76h@norden.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 08:34:22 JST 💚

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     @layered
     Maybe it's better to clearly ask for money instead of offering it for free and then complain that no one is paying. 🙄

     Such a video should come directly from the Blender foundation.

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 08:41:10 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • NatsumeShokogami
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     @natsume_shokogami I think part of the reason is that people experience the corrupting influence of money when they get paid by their employer, so they reject money completely when working on projects for which they have enough intrinsic motivation to do them without money.

     At least that’s what my emotional reaction is.

     And it is sane: payment that depends on measured performance can ruin intrinsic motivation:
     https://www.draketo.de/light/english/motivation-and-payment

     But reliable, regular payment does not.
     @tino76H @layered