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    Vote with your wallet. Boycott rent seeking companies that lock away their IP and charge money for access to it.

    For example, FOR ADOBE TO DESERVE MY MONEY EVERY MONTH, 100% OF THEIR TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE.

    The only rent I happily pay for is a good VPN.

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        Yea. Still use my full suite $200 adobe from being student. Like what, a decade old at this point?

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      God forbid a programmer be compensated for their labor.

      I mean yeah, subscription services are shitty, but what’s wrong with lifetime purchases?

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        You buy a pair of shoes, the maker is paid. Why do you have to pay the bastard every month?

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        As a programmer, and an open source one paid handsomely, fuck subscriptions and asshole software companies.

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            The customers (multinational and middle size companies, ranging from telecoms, banks, governments, goods and services) pay for support and features of the software. Software has always bugs and CVEs that need fixing, or new features, or needs for securing its supply chain (with SLSA, SBOMs, etc).

            There’s a handful multibillionarie companies that follow this approach with open source: Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, VMware, etc. Particularly in cloud-native tech like Kubernetes and all that gets deployed on top of it.

            If a technology is not open source it really doesn’t exist anymore. Customers have learned from the last 30 years and run away from vendor lock-in (AWS, AKS, Google cloud services…).

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              Oh, I program with open source stacks too. I thought you were referring to a specific FOSS app or SaaS.

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                Well, my employer pays me to maintain 100% of the time a specific security project that is deployed on Kubernetes. The project is donated to the CNCF (part to the Linux foundation), and my employer doesn’t push any of us in the team to work on any specifics, just to keep improving it in general. All development happens in the open, including slack chats, etc. (Would be happy to share the specific project, written in Rust mainly, but I don’t want to doxx this specific Lemmy account :D)

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            According to Wikipedia, he’s actually a criminal defense attorney in California, and also “The Fish”, original lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish.

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              Mmh, and if I go by your nickname, you are Jason Kaye, influential hardcore DJ and dead since a year.

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                I also appear on any graph that shows the months between July and January abbreviated by the first letter of the month.

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        I’m actually a programmer. There are ways to compensate us that doesn’t force people to pay rent for our work.

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        I mean yeah, subscription services are shitty, but what’s wrong with lifetime purchases?

        This thread is about subscriptions. So I’d assume that when people talk about ‘rent seeking companies’ etc, they are referring to subscription payments rather than lifetime purchases.

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        This doesn’t really make sense. Programmers are usually just paid a salary. My salary is the same regardless of how many subscribers there are. I don’t give a shit. If everyone started pirating everything it wouldn’t really impact my job. There’s plenty of dev work to do.

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      I pay for music streaming on Tidal. I have a pretty big library of music from attempts to get away from streaming (and keep it up on Soulseek), but I use curated playlists too much to get away from streaming