• SigHunter@lemmy.kde.social
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          sorry must’ve mistyped on the phone. I corrected my post. I basically meant: corporations pay bills, without having a bill they do not pay stuff. they do not give away money if they don’t have to. so paid support contracts are imho a good way for corporations to pay for FOSS. donations not so much

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      Not one company I’ve worked at has ever paid a license for anything if it was at all possible to do it freely.

      EPPlus trying to get money for their hard work? Guess we are stuck on the free version forever then…

      It’s fucking embarrassing.

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      Some send table scraps to bigger organization, like the Apache Foundation. The millions of small projects that they depend on get shit.

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        When I do, I don’t ask them whether they donate to the foss projects they consume, let’s put it that way.

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      In most cases no. Sometimes they let their developers contribute to the open source projects for a small percentage of their working time.