Donationware: you must donate to use it. Not like regular optional donates.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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I paid for "premium" boost fpr lemmy and it was 100% worth it. I didn't had too but having lemmy on boost made me forget about reddit.
Boost is Freemium software.
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One of my favorite programs was acting up, so I went to reinstall. Turned out this program that has been free for a decade, now wants $29 a month, to let me pirate movies. Da fuck? What a way to shit the bed, to offer the same free program but charge for it out of nowhere
If anyone actually pays $29 a month to watch movies illegally modern streaming services have truly reached a new low
Yeah it's was bittorrent. they went with a paid, tiered model now. They want me to pay to use a torrent client to pirate stuff, it's ridiculous
Unable to delete so editing instead. Leaving Lemmy.world due to privacy concerns.
I had no idea as I've been using it for years and it was just there. I switched to q
I mean, that's cheaper than having three or four subscriptions to cover at least the basic catalog.
now whatever you do, don't steal it
also doublecheck you aren't on a scam site or that the product hasn't forked ;)
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I think pay what you can/want is a great concept, but calling it donation is kinda misleading
Just about every instance of this, you can donate $0...
That's the true definition of donationware.
If you're being forced to "donate" any amount of money upfront to use the software, it's no longer donationware, it's literally just paidware. Even if the source code is available elsewhere under a FOSS license, that specific copy is by definition paidware.
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Escortware. You're not paying for the software, you're paying for the time you're using the software.
Isn't that essentially software as a service?
Arrest creative cloud for prostitution. All those people are paying to get fucked.
chef's kiss
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Any real-life example of anyone doing this?
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/
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.
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Voicemeeter did that too.
But honestly i don't really see what's wrong. There's a base donation for the price of the software but it just give the option to support the dev if you want...
I mean most things that rely on donation like that are just cheap indie software (I think voicemeeter was $5)
I'd take that over the awful and greedy subscriptions that cost an arm like adobe or Microsoft.
afwall+
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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)
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I find it funny how the word retard has become a slur but the implication that something is retarded is still acceptable
Turns out there's a difference between insulting a person and disparaging an inanimate thing.
Do y'all remember Wanda Sykes doing commercials about stuff being called gay and how it was offensive?
This is basically the same thing but with retard instead of gay.
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I don't like either and have been mobbed over my opinion, despite being a caregiver for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
One of the reasons I speak up as a caregiver is I have known ASD 1 people who admitted that it bothers them that people use that term, but they feel like they can't make the argument themselves. Because they're disabled.
Out of touch assholes are the only ones still dug in over this.
I mean I'm autistic and adhd. I've been called retarded pretty much my whole life. To me it's like the nword at this point. The only difference is I'm not black so I'm not gonna be throwing that around.
I'm pretty sure you were downvoted by someone angry that you referenced the nword, even though you were literally equating the use of the word as a slur to your own experience. Which is a bummer, because as a neurologically atypical person, it can be difficult even to speak out to address your own lived experience, and can also be difficult to know what to say to have neurologically typical people grasp what you're trying to express.
Which demonstrates why I bitch about people using the word "retarded" as an insult. When people with that lived experience do speak up, sometimes it can be difficult to make the point you're making in a way the greater population understands and BAM! Now you've pissed off everyone!
It's so ridiculous to me that there are people out there so proud, so attached to the words they use as insults that having someone else say, "You might be hurting someone other than the person you intend with that word, could you maybe pick another one?" outrages them.
And, let me just say, if you're too dim-witted to think up a better, more appropriate insult, you might be as stupid as the people you're trying to insult.
I'm sorry that you've been mobbed for sharing this view. That's shitty.
I feel like ableism, especially against people with intellectual and personality disability, is the one sphere where nobody seems to take the objections of the targeted group seriously, and simultaneously dismiss people speaking up for the targeted group for being "virtue signalers" or as whiners. So it's like the only solution is to just not say anything.
(Tangential but I have similar feelings about people calling others narcissists and attacking them for it, though I don't feel like that is going to change anytime soon. Still, if the person targeted is actually a narcissist, then I feel like it's bad to attack them for a diagnosis and symptoms they have no control over. And if they aren't actually a narcissist, then why further stigmatize people with narcissism? It's more complicated than the r-slur since abuse by narcissists happens and victims shouldn't feel restricted from sharing their experiences accurately, but similar in how it's disproportionately used to disparage and nobody takes objections to that usage seriously.)
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Randsomeware
You must pay to use your own software
I hear you. I think it's just exceedingly rare. Not saying it doesn't exist, I just think giving it a name is a little strange given how unbelievably rare it is. But, you got to start somewhere! So, I digress. I guess, here it is. 🤷♂️
You have no idea how deep the -ware rabbit hole goes.
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There is also software that you could compile from source yourself but the binaries are locked behind a donation. Are those also donationware?
Theres also software you can download for free, but you gotta pay for the password to unlock the rar file...
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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.
I agree this is bullshit, especially the donation for activation code.
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English people on their way to ruin the meaning of every word.
In English, the correct meaning of words is always optional. The language is fluid, literally anything can be a euphemism; idk if that's also the case in other languages but it regularly trips up even native speakers.
Even so, even with that much flexibility built into the language, this is still just malignant, cynical, toxic lying of the worst sort.
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.
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What like itch.io? Hard disagree
Itch is free, with optional donations.
Donationware is "Please donate to continue"
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