Yep. You can pay with your data, you can pay a corporation, or you can pay open source developers directly.

If someone can’t afford to pay, or doesn’t believe in it, that’s fine, and that’s part of what open source is, which is amazing. But if you’re in a position to support foss developers, and they created something useful for you, I think it’s the least we can do.

I pay for all of the software that I use, and encourage others to do so as well. That’s not what this is at all. Pretty much the opposite effect.

I would love to see this reported on one of those local news channels with a policy of pretending that Santa is real.

Nicely found! Thanks

It doesn’t seem like an unpopular opinion at all

Unpopular opinion: Charities should be morally allowed to compete for top talent on a financial basis.

Also it wasn’t renamed Palestine until more than a century after his death

No lies detected

Good for her I guess?

Some important information and context about antisemitism in Canada:

Hate crimes against Jews have tripled in recent years, far faster than other hate crimes.

Jewish Canadians are the most common target of hate crimes, despite making up about 1% of the population:

I see the same deeply flawed copypasta on every thread about Israel. It speaks about Theodore Herzl, but doesn’t acknowledge that he envisioned a peaceful dual state of Jews and Arabs together. It talks about Jews who left Europe to go back to their homeland, but doesn’t mention the fact that the majority of Jewish Israelis are descended from people who never lived in Europe. It describes Jews “arriving” in the Land of Israel under British rule as though there were not already Jewish communities there when the Ottomans arrived in the 1500s. It leans heavily on the worship of Ilan Pappe, who has been criticized as “one of the world’s sloppiest historians” and has been accused of academic fraud. It mentions the increase in Jewish population in Palestine (about 590k from 1890-1947), but doesn’t mention that the Muslim population increased by even more over the same period. One of these migrant groups is assumed to be “native” while the other is called “colonizers” for reasons that are never justified.

A copy-pasted wall of text with lots of links is no substitute for critical thinking and basic historical awareness. When a person spends far too long cherry-picking historical sources, they blind themselves to the broader picture and lose sight of the forest for the trees.

Yes, exactly - The assumption that FOSS means that there is no financial support is practically archaic. I pay for any software that is useful to me, and many other people do too. There’s donations, perks, exclusive content that subsidizes the core work, there are grants, etc.

Free software can make money and be sustainable.

Churn & burn, baby!

Weirdly no Sailor Moon

Yes, but one was in a galaxy far far away

Exactly. People can easily forget that online behavior has real world consequences.

Why do all the “government overreach” republicans seem to scurry into the woodwork whenever the government interferes with doctors and their patients?

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The comment about castles getting “BRICKED” is almost clever wordplay. Too bad the author has no sense of irony.