I paid for “premium” boost fpr lemmy and it was 100% worth it. I didn’t had too but having lemmy on boost made me forget about reddit.
Any real-life example of anyone doing this?
FairEmail is a privacy oriented email app on fdroid which uses donation to activate pro features. €0.10 to activate one time and €7.50 for unlimited future devices. I think it’s a pretty fair deal.
https://email.faircode.eu/donate/It’s a fair deal, but the point is it’s not a donation. You can purchase pro features, and that’s great. But it’s not a donation if you get a product in return, that’s just a purchase.
afwall+
Voicemeeter did that too.
But honestly i don’t really see what’s wrong. There’s a base donation for the price of the software but it just give the option to support the dev if you want…
I mean most things that rely on donation like that are just cheap indie software (I think voicemeeter was $5)
I’d take that over the awful and greedy subscriptions that cost an arm like adobe or Microsoft.
Maybe it’s regional, but the webpage doesn’t say anything about a donation. It uses language like “store,” “purchase” and “subscription.”
It’s free software. You can charge money for distribution of free software but if the user does then he has the right to have acces to the source code forever no restrictions. And that user is free to distribute copies of the software as he wishes.
So would that mean that torrenting parted magic is legal?
I think FreeFileSync does make some additional features available when you donate, which I don’t think would otherwise be available.
Screenskraper but they have to pay server costs so it makes sense.
OCCT for some fucking reason, where it doesn’t.
OCCT doesn’t require you to purchase it for personal use (although you will get a 10sec timer before you can start a benchmark/stability test), which is why i think it doesn’t count as “donationware”
Maybe nagware would be a better label. Like winrar.
I’ve seen it many times before but I can’t remember it now.
Mynoise.com allows you to do a 1 time donation of 1$ to unlock all the sounds. You then just need the email you donated with.
Not sure if it would count. But https://fritzing.org/download/ Went to pay it or ?compile it yourself? with version 1.0.
Just about every instance of this, you can donate $0…
In a lot of religious areas, you’re not allowed to buy religious iconography.
But if you make a set-price donation, they’ll give you religious iconography as a completely unrelated gift to recognize your piety.
You can literally donate 1ct. I have no idea how people can complain when developers want money for their work.
The “Linux community” is 80% users that dont contribute, 10% “powerusers” that still dont contribute, 5% people that help with nondevelopment work (bug reporting, community support, etc.) and 5% actual developers.
(Completely rough estimation)
One of my favorite programs was acting up, so I went to reinstall. Turned out this program that has been free for a decade, now wants $29 a month, to let me pirate movies. Da fuck? What a way to shit the bed, to offer the same free program but charge for it out of nowhere
If anyone actually pays $29 a month to watch movies illegally modern streaming services have truly reached a new low
Yeah it’s was bittorrent. they went with a paid, tiered model now. They want me to pay to use a torrent client to pirate stuff, it’s ridiculous
Unable to delete so editing instead. Leaving Lemmy.world due to privacy concerns.
English people on their way to ruin the meaning of every word.
