• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Developers deserve to be paid for their time though…

    If I buy you a free drink at a bar, say “hey do you want this?”, and you accept, do I then “deserve” to be able to follow you home afterwards and know where you live?

    At the end of the day nobody held a gun to anybody’s head and forced them to develop an application, and especially nobody then forced them to give that application away for free.

    EDIT: Likewise I don’t think developers of such free (as in beer) software owe their users anything beyond the basic expectation that their software isn’t malware.