• Zerush
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    3 years ago

    OpenSource isn’t neccesary free to use, less if have some inherent costs. F.Exmpl. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are OpenSource, but only with limited free versions (freemium), because server cost money. Same with other OSS. Also is legit, if the dev like to buy food sometimes and pay his bills, OpenSource not means that it’s only made because the love to do so. There are a lot of OSS freemium and also paid out there.

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      3 years ago

      The issue here is not that the binaries cost money, this is reasonable and has been employed by many softwares like asprite.

      Here they are leeching off github’s free file hosting to distribute paid, closed source software

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        GitHub is M$, don’t forget, even Google OpenSource Repo is better. GitHub itself is freemium proprietary soft. More and more devs prefer GitLab or Gitea