Yeah if open source apps get traded, they will go downhill like everything else. Saw many examples of that, and we will see more and more. Humans seem not to realize that if you trade something, you will (eventually) ruin that something. So yeah...pay for Open Source apps is a very bad idea. Support the projects, yes. great idea. But paying, again, bad idea. Bad incentive for the developers and the ones buying. You'll see nonsense features and stupid freemiums.
Anyway...
Flathub Is Introducing Paid Apps!?!?
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in reply to Tio • • •The donate button is a good thing I think, but its not good if users are forced to pay. Paid apps are not very common in FOSS, its usually proprietary software that does it, but with the implementation of systems like this maybe more and more FOSS apps will do it. #TradeRuinsEverything as always, if developers can't make it in this society without trading their work then what can they do?
At least Flathub is making a separate repo for paid apps, so it can be disabled on Tromjaro.
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