Why FOSS? Why not get paid for your shit? Why do people use github?

Don't lie to me about freedom of software as if people actually sit down and audit code.

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>Why FOSS? Why not get paid for your shit?
Because nobody would buy their software and often theses people DO make money of their free Software, or at the very least they get enjoyment out of it.

>Don't lie to me about freedom of software as if people actually sit down and audit code.
That isn't the point of freedom of software, its a nice benefit and it IS done.

it's just a different thing
getting payed is nice

but writing code together with millions of other programmers is nice too

you can still sell CDs of your foss software, and ship it with the source code
put a manual or something inside of it to make ot more valuable or have a donate button on your website

What's nice about writing code, it's just a fucking job. At most, a bunch of colorful text on the screen.
That doesn't seem to be reliable, I need to know if I make $5k this month or not.

Literally "they do it for free" of technology. If the jannies have shown us anything it's that people who perform chargeable tasks for free are often fine upstanding citizens and not pathetic degenerates

>it's just a fucking job
>can't appreciate the beauty of well written code
do you say code can't be beautifully written?
what are you, some kind of code monkey?

write a library in C or C++
there is a lot of thought you can put in it and design it well so it bares the most use for other people

SDL is nice and used by so many

making console programs simple and doing one thing very well is also a great concept, all the console programs can interact with each other in a nice and meaningful way

this is what computing is all about, for me: making life of humans easier, and giving them all the functionality they need
nowadays it's about giving people free fancy tools which form the way people think, and at the same time abuse them and there time needlessly so the shekels roll into your pockets

Or how the Zuck would say it: "What's good for the world isn't the same as what's good for Facebook."

>do you say code can't be beautifully written?
I don't give a quarter of a shit about programming, my company's pre-processor transforms everything like the Go compiler. I care about algorithms.
>write a library in C or C++
I've already reimplemented all the std:: containers with various optimisations. Currently trying to implement my own compile time state machines.
Boring straightforward work, I watch(ed) dark souls speedruns and java tutorials in the background.

Honestly do people just wake up one day and say "Gee I sure wish existed, totally need that shit"

Of course the gamer is clueless.

This is your chance in a lifetime to spread the FOSS word to open ears retard.

Why would I want to do that, gamer?

>FOSS
Just say free software. Being open source is but one of the four freedoms under the umbrella of free software.

To justify your esoteric way of life.

I don't care what some retarded gamer thinks.

Your loss, keep living in the bubble

Okay. I don't see how it is a loss, however.

>low test FOSSfag gives up completely, more news @ 9

I get paid 150k a year to write FOSS software, I don't know what are you talking about.

>I don't know what are you talking about.
About some fag programming in his free time and uploading all of that crap for free. Then other such people go and support him.

>gamers calling others low test

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Paid? Paid for what?
Some bunch of machine code that can be easily and theoretically infinitely copied and replicated over and over at practically no cost?

You bet. The trick is coming up with that software in the first place.

>What's nice about writing code
What's nice about drawing? What's nice about design? What's nice about wood working? What's nice about maintaining a Linux distro? What's nice about being a moderator or janitor on some site? What's nice about doing mathematics?

People enjoy a lot of different things and some people enjoy programming in their free time.
And they choose to open source is because they aren't interested in writing it themselves but growing a community of interested people who all put effort into it, something not easy to do if your program is not FOSS.

>Honestly do people just wake up one day and say "Gee I sure wish existed, totally need that shit"
Yes, they do and then they start a project and collaborate with others to create it. This is not something esoteric, but something that happens regularly and created some great programs.

>I care about algorithms.
And some people care about implementing algorithms.

>What's nice about X
I personally think having loads of money is better than all that surrogate crap. With enough money I can pay people to draw/design/work/etc for me and that's great, just owning somebody for a period of time.
>implementing algorithms
Why don't most people care about coming up with algorithms instead? Or reimplementing the standard library using SIMD then slapping preprocessor guards so that people with old CPUs and OSs can't even compile this shit.

>I personally think having loads of money is better than all that surrogate crap. With enough money I can pay people to draw/design/work/etc for me and that's great, just owning somebody for a period of time.
Do you have a hobby? Something you do for enjoyments sake?

>Why don't most people care about coming up with algorithms instead?
Why do some people like Vanilla ice cream more then Chocolate ice cream?

>I personally think having loads of money is better than all that surrogate crap. With enough money I can pay people to draw/design/work/etc for me and that's great, just owning somebody for a period of time.
That is beyond pathetic.

>Do you have a hobby? Something you do for enjoyments sake?
I try to imitate celebrities in front of the mirror. I'm good at it too. Often, I come to anonymous image boards and pretend I'm somebody else. I used to play videogames, but that is not good enough.

Okay, so you do things which aren't about money, but rather about enjoyment, right?
Can you imagine that some people enjoy things you don't particular enjoy?

>but rather about enjoyment
Every day I wish I became an actor. I decided to get into computers because my uncle kept telling me AI would replace actors soon enough and now I regret it. I hate my hobby.
I can't imagine how people can be so out of touch with their survival instincts that they do things just for fun.

You do know you can make money off of the binaries and just share the source code using some kind of foss license, right?
The reason why that works is because 99% of people do not know how to compile something from source code.
And from those that do majority of people just buy it.

Literally never seen that happen

Then you are not paying enough attention.

Okay send me some examples

>I can't imagine how people can be so out of touch with their survival instincts that they do things just for fun.
Okay. So a normal human being in the 21st Century has to split his day into different things, usually the things he *has* to do he enjoys less, but they occupy only a certain amount of the time, the rest he can spend on things he *wants* to do, these things vary enormously between people and what one may classify as "boring" another might think is "exciting", so there are people who enjoy programming.
And their enjoyment of programming is a fact, nothing you can argue against, so these people write software for fun and share it with others.

>I hate my hobby.
You can't hate a hobby, simply by definition.

Aseprite.(it's some sprite drawing application)
All of jew lunduke's games
A lot of other games in itch.io
RedHat linux used to be paid(and quite expensive too)until they realised companies that like a product pay you anyways and individual customers do not have enough money.

You want me to recall them off hand?

I still don't understand how people can't just change their taste to something that will benefit them.
>From tomorrow, I will sell my wood carvings on ebay

>I still don't understand how people can't just change their taste to something that will benefit them.
Well, the Fact is they can't. I don't particularly enjoy doing chemistry, that is just a fact and it will probably always be that way.
Tastes are ingrained into humans and can't be changed at will.

Also usually, people dislike things *because* they get payed for them. Selling software (or anything else) comes with obligations, obligations people don't want to have.

oh I see

>itt: the worlds cringiest gaymer gets reality check

OH also i forgot to add doom's source code is available
github.com/id-Software/DOOM
github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG
Of course that is not all of the source cose.
Some people do a weird thing were they use opensource tools like the game's engine and then just make sure only the assets(as in art,sound) are licensed.

>you have a skillset I don't, but I'm still not paying
>it's just a bunch of colorful text BRO
Sounds like a recipe for success. Not to mention that it never was prohibited to profit off of open source or FOSS software.

This reads like some sick parody. Are you actually serious with this incoherent babble?

>To justify your esoteric way of life.
>Atom, Blender, VLC, Krita, Mozilla Firefox, 7-zip, Gimp, Notepad++, Audacity, WordPress, Handbrake
How esoteric, surely no one has ever heard or used one of these pieces of software.

Nobody owes you anything, least of all a justification for their hobby. The world doesn't revolve around your self-entitled zoomer ass.

I literally do not use a single one of those programs
K keep living in the bubble

FOSS does not imply gratis you dumb fuck.

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>proprietary coffee recipe

Why isn't zlib license more commonly used?

I don't want to even think about the hassle that trying to sell the software I write would be. So the two options left are to keep it for myself or to give it to other people with no warranty. Giving it to other people gets me free testing/patches, which is better than no testing/patches. Keeping it for myself gets me nothing.

>I never used something, therefore no one else is
This is exactly how retarded you sound.
>K keep living in the bubble
Right back at you.

How are you going to tax me?