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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think software developers deserve to be paid for their work. What an odd title.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Donate to FOSS developers if you find the software useful, but don't give a cent to big tech companies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I had a similar change of heart years ago, watching a docu-series on PBS and realizing I wanted more of that content in the world. Even though you can stream PBS for about $5 a month, I canceled Netflix so I could pay PBS $20 a month to start making up for all the time my money was flowing in the wrong direction.

We're likely to get more of the things we invest in, and less of the things we don't. That investment includes attention in ad-driven market, not only money.

I know I'm not the first person on lemmy to have this realization, it's one of the many reasons I like it here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Currently trying to improve a popular Sphinx extension, sphobjinv. Can watch my daily pain here

If anyone is so inclined, please throw some litecoin my way

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The litecoin will go towards my daily milk tea habit. Elephants work for peanuts, i work for milk tea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Software being free and devs getting paid are separate things. Software could be something that just costs money to make but free to use, like country infrastructure.

If I made a script and you copied it, I didn’t lose anything, the GDP of the entire world just went up cause now you have my tool as well.

I’m a dev btw