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Forgive me but this part of the open source and foss confuses me. If you code and release an open source and free piece of software like say, a robust video player such as VLC, how is that dev being paid?

Because in my eyes (I'm not too privy to FOSS ins and outs)

I'm basically getting your software for free of no charge, it IS free as in free beer cos you're not asking ME to pay it for so who is paying YOU?

Does it come via donations or wealthy corporations like Red Hat and Microsoft pay or fund open sourced projects that is given to the hard working developers of that OSS/FOSS project?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think usually it's just about costing the competitors money to try and fuck them. That's the payment. 3ds max is priced unfairly and it's unreasonable, that's why Blender exists. Autodesk bought eagle cad, made it cost money, that's why KiCad got made. I take pride in supporting open source everything in protest of how enshittified the world has become. It harms those corporations when more people use open source which is a cause I can get behind.