Donationware: you must donate to use it. Not like regular optional donates.
- Lennard ( @Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English26•7 months ago
I think pay what you can/want is a great concept, but calling it donation is kinda misleading
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 25•7 months ago
Escortware. You’re not paying for the software, you’re paying for the time you’re using the software.
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English15•7 months ago
Isn’t that essentially software as a service?
- maggio ( @maggio@discuss.tchncs.de ) 20•7 months ago
Any real-life example of anyone doing this?
- player2 ( @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•7 months ago
FairEmail is a privacy oriented email app on fdroid which uses donation to activate pro features. €0.10 to activate one time and €7.50 for unlimited future devices. I think it’s a pretty fair deal.
https://email.faircode.eu/donate/- dev_null ( @dev_null@lemmy.ml ) 30•7 months ago
It’s a fair deal, but the point is it’s not a donation. You can purchase pro features, and that’s great. But it’s not a donation if you get a product in return, that’s just a purchase.
- conti473 ( @conti473@thelemmy.club ) 3•7 months ago
You can use it for free, you just need to donate to get rid of the banner and to get all features.
The bare functionality is in fact free
- dev_null ( @dev_null@lemmy.ml ) 7•7 months ago
I’m not disputing that. I’m just finding it silly to call purchases donations.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
That’s not a donation, that’s just a purchase
- conti473 ( @conti473@thelemmy.club ) 1•7 months ago
Not if it has all the essential features, it has no 3rd party ads, tracking and is a privacy focused mail client.
I only bought i because i could test it for months and saw everything works and it being updated and well maintained, it’s kinda pricey for a mail client.
There are for sure nagging experiences in other programs, Fairmail is not one of them.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 1•7 months ago
You’re paying them for something. That’s a purchase, not a donation.
- THE MASTERMIND ( @THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today ) 2•7 months ago
And op asked for real life examples and that is what this person is answering to
- MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 5•7 months ago
afwall+
- kambusha ( @kambusha@feddit.ch ) 4•7 months ago
I think FreeFileSync does make some additional features available when you donate, which I don’t think would otherwise be available.
- DarkIrata ( @DarkIrata@lemmy.gwa.app ) 2•7 months ago
Not sure if it would count. But https://fritzing.org/download/ Went to pay it or ?compile it yourself? with version 1.0.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 15•7 months ago
You can literally donate 1ct. I have no idea how people can complain when developers want money for their work.
The “Linux community” is 80% users that dont contribute, 10% “powerusers” that still dont contribute, 5% people that help with nondevelopment work (bug reporting, community support, etc.) and 5% actual developers.
(Completely rough estimation)
I have no problem with “pay what you can”. I just hate “you must donate X amount to use this software”. If I need to donate, then it is not a donate. It is payment.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 1•7 months ago
Never had this but yeah maybe. “Pay for binaries” is still free software though
- Muscle_Meteor ( @Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de ) 14•7 months ago
Randsomeware
You must pay to use your own software
- Jack ( @JustJack23@slrpnk.net ) 10•7 months ago
Where the fuck did you get this definition from?
If I remember correctly vim is charityware and is entirely free, I only found out about the charity part on accident.
- Jack ( @JustJack23@slrpnk.net ) 8•7 months ago
I agree this is bullshit, especially the donation for activation code.
- mexicancartel ( @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•7 months ago
Thats just paid sortware with extra name
- fine_sandy_bottom ( @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•7 months ago
Well yeah, I don’t really see the problem with that though.
- TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months ago
Yeahhh… I paid for it because I needed the functionality.
- Lele ( @leamaya@feddit.de ) 10•7 months ago
There is also software that you could compile from source yourself but the binaries are locked behind a donation. Are those also donationware?
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English4•7 months ago
Theres also software you can download for free, but you gotta pay for the password to unlock the rar file…
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) English3•7 months ago
pls answer I need to know if I can use aseprite without disappointing daddy stallman
- Bene7rddso ( @Bene7rddso@feddit.de ) 5•7 months ago
Paid software is completely fine with RMS as long as the source is available to the users (not even to everyone) as long as you can freely redistribute the source (like RHEL before they enshittified)
- Doods ( @Doods@infosec.pub ) 10•7 months ago
English people on their way to ruin the meaning of every word.
- Hundun ( @Hundun@beehaw.org ) 7•7 months ago
Hey what if my software is paid, but you can purchase it for N money or more, with an input field?
Because that I’ve seen a lot, and it sounds suspiciously like what you’re describing, yet completely normal.
Edited for grammar
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 6•7 months ago
What like itch.io? Hard disagree
- butter ( @butter@midwest.social ) English8•7 months ago
Itch is free, with optional donations.
Donationware is “Please donate to continue”
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 1•7 months ago
You can set a donation minimum in itch
- toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) English2•7 months ago
I dunno this lacks nuance… I think this could easily be referring to different economic situations. The concept of donation usually has this implication of not being a for-profit entity or for a indie developer’s side project. These kinds of apps usually are still either open source or source available which is different than closed, proprietary applications. With this focus on money, I would assume that “free” is meaning gratis where users can often be the product & while the source is not available …or some VC-funded product where they are loss-leading a free tier now just eventually charge everyone later which is hardly good, with a dash of open washing to taste.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 1•7 months ago
Free beer: dont pay and still get software
Free speech: get software you can trust, be sure there are no active backdoors etc.
- toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) 2•7 months ago
Gratis vs. Libre