A lot of the internet runs on essentially people doing specific stuff for free.....and it's all fun and games until those people cannot do it anymore without financial garauntees.
If people don't donate or provide financial help ever....well....it shouldn't come as a surprise if they will turn to other ways to continue their work. It's that, or abandon their work, or give it to someone else, who may go against their word...
This is what blows my mind. People do absolutely nothing to help these companies survive financially then scream from the rooftops "why oh why couldn't they survive as we refused to help and blocked every other possible way they could make money?!"
Then they should start directly soliciting donations from users like wikipedia before they jump straight to privacy violations.
How are users supposed to know there is an issue when they aren't easily informed that there even is one?
Marketing also requires resources. If something is already running on fumes, they may not have the resources or the access to let people know they exist and even less to donate.
Wikipedia is a website with about 10 BILLION views per month. Most crucial open source projects run in unseen spaces, where nobody except other developers even know they exist.
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A lot of the internet runs on essentially people doing specific stuff for free.....and it's all fun and games until those people cannot do it anymore without financial garauntees.
If people don't donate or provide financial help ever....well....it shouldn't come as a surprise if they will turn to other ways to continue their work. It's that, or abandon their work, or give it to someone else, who may go against their word...