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You all are buying software? I just donate to my friendly neighborhood FOSS Developer.
You paying tax on those donations? π§
How else would I get this year's version of Macaffe Antivirus!
It's more video games. How would you get your your Nintendo console? How would you go by your kid? The new super Mario Brothers how would you go buy your teenager? The new GTA? How would you go by yourself? A nice little present of a brand spanking new super Nintendo entertainment system with yoshi island from your local mom and pop game store.
Oh you would do it all online and not go to a store because if you went to a store and bought those same things you would get taxed on them.
Actually the fact that software hasn't had a sales tax online has really only just hurt computer repair stores, mom and pop video, game stores and other local businesses
Big corpos are eating the loss of sales by just selling the same s*** on their own website. They're not having any sort of f****** issue with it. So for them it doesn't matter if the sales tax is applied fairly or not.
But for your mom and Pop store selling video games or other software it matters a great deal like a lot and it does make a difference.
Your first paragraph has way too many questions marks. I'm not asking you to buy a teenager.
You could always try clicking on some shady links online.
Let me know when your friendly neighborhood FOSS developer creates a CRM or accounting software that doesn't cost me more in time to get running and figure out how to use than the paid options.
CRM: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
Accounting: https://github.com/bigcapitalhq/bigcapital
Yeah I didn't say "when they exist".
These are also not "free as in beer".
Also your Big Capital has a .Claude file at the top of it and likewise Twenty has .cursor so LOLOLOL no thanks
I'm not saying these are plug and play, but they are quite literally free as in beer.
AI is definitely problematic. But if you think your paid for software doesn't use AI in it in the present day, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Weird. Most free things don't have a "pricing" page, in my experience.
There is an option to pay for their storage, hosting, and support. But both have options to run the code yourself absolutely free. Not an uncommon way for FOSS developers to get the financial support they need. And awesome that it looks like all features are available FOSS. Just managed hosting is paid for.
Yeah, our IT department will definitely replace our CRM and Accounting software with some random GitHub projects.
Thanks!
Stop shifting the goal post
This seems nice https://civicrm.com/
Your IT department likely just selects some random vendor that doesn't really give a shit and puts all your data beyond some bullshit cloud service anyways. That they probably cobbled together from github anyways.
Did you not read? Those are established for-profit companies who also happen to release open-source versions of their stack. They also have hosted cloud versions.
You're just backing away because you've been pointed out to be wrong in your sarcastic bullshit, buddy. Just walk away.
Wow. Thatβs a lot of hostility for me making a sarcastic but truthful comment.
Any large company will pay for corporate level software. To deny this shows youβve never worked in this environment and thatβs ok.
Have a nice day.
The majority of people cannot easily turn a few hours of their time on a whim into money because most of their working life is pre-scheduled. Others especially those most likely to be able to pick up a shift aren't paid all that much. I find that ANY new software requires spending time learning in addition to any cost up front. Furthermore most of the paid software would require me to use a worse OS and pay for the privilege so its an awfully hard sell to bother.
As far as accounting software I who simply manage my wages haven't ever needed anything more complicated than a spreadsheet. What software I've seen is kind of obnoxious and terrible so maybe this is an opportunity for someone.
Yes, thank you for elaborating on my point.