Incredible, the last two months absolutely crushed on the first day of December and all it took was a single desktop notification. This is just the paypal donations as well. You can take a look at the data for yourself here.

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    28 days ago

    I think it’s about time FOSS points out the fact that making software is a lot of work and while it’s cool if some want to do it for free / as a hobby we need projects to be financially sustainable. Sure its nice if government orgs or companies sponsor open source projects but I feel it would be better if the community™ could pay most of the costs. I know thats utopian but I think most people don’t realise how much work goes into all of these projects and (as evident by that graph) a lot of them seem to be up for paying for a good product that doesn’t spy on you.