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It is easy, if you want the FOSS dream to keep alive, pay the developers for the software.

Donations, buy their books, subscriptions, distribution CDs, whatever.

Otherwise don't come around complaining how their are selling themselves, while not being willing to pay for the tools of trade.

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Yeah, hear that Amazon? Start supporting the projects that you use in your own company.

This is really the only viable way to support FOSS. Considering the amount of money some people make in tech, they should allocate a % of that to donating to open source projects each year. But no, nothing’s going to change the way we live because we can always take but never give, and now things are changing for the worse.

Could be great to have a way to automatically know all the FOSS / freeware software one uses and donate to all them at once

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