Thinking of starting a “50 for FOSS” pledge campaign.
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Thinking of starting a “50 for FOSS” pledge campaign.
If you:
- Work in tech
- Can comfortably pay all your bills
- Regularly use free/open-source softwareThen on the 5th of every month, you choose a piece of software you appreciate and find a way to pay $50 for it. Ko-fi. GitHub sponsorship. OSS collectives. Open an issue in the repo or email the maintainer if you have to.
We have to insist on paying for the software we use.
Does this already exist?
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q: Why give $50 to software when more urgent causes are in need?
a: It’s not a zero sum game. Giving begets giving. You can donate to the food bank too.q: Don’t software engineers have enough money?
a: Some software engineers are upper class. Most open-source labor is not done by them. But that’s not the point. Labor should be compensated, and it degrades the whole industry when we allow it to be done for free and then exploited for profit.