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The software's free, bud.
The software is free, but no dev works for free.
Thay have a company that pays for dev time, that company will need funds.
Might get some socks for work
My comment was in support of the store. The software's free, this is how you can "pay for it"
It's possible to engineer software well and still earn a living.
That said, engineering software poorly is often a choice, usually made by people who are poor engineers. In some cases, and I suspect this may be the case for Nabu Casa Inc., the people are such poor engineers that they aren't even aware that their software is poorly engineered. Many technology companies are better at business than they are engineering.
Edit: actually no, I don't think Nabu Casa Inc. are unaware of their poor engineering, I think they just don't care. They're far more concerned with maintaining their company's profits.
You are the classic example of why Open Source project developers hate some of their communities.
Toxic through and through. Go vibe code your own solution.
But you still use it with all of these objections?
I mean, so are free-to-plays full of microtransactions and dark patterns.
Do you think this is a good analogy