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[–] bmaxv@noc.social 29 points 9 months ago (13 children)

@ebits21 #PySimpleGUI #python #opensource

🎢 Another bites the dust. 🎢

Moves like this are a bit... strange? It was on github. There are 1.8k forks, with intact LGPL. What is happening here? Is their dev work worth 99$/year ? Not saying people don't deserve to get paid for their work. I'm just not seeing the business case for this.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone -1 points 9 months ago (10 children)

How else do you expect their time to be paid for?

Donations?

Donations can give you hobby money. Not "multi-millionaire, going to retire" money. If people who start FOSS projects don't want to admit that, then they are just looking for free popularity/shortcut to success. They can stop abusing the FLOSS community just so they can make a quick buck.

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