What are your favorite non-foss apps? (beehaw.org)

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I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there's noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

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[-] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago

I think you've got a bit of a misconception about FOSS software - you're allowed to make money selling it, you just also have to provide the source code to any customers! A fair few FOSS apps have free versions on F-Droid but paid versions on the Play store, for example.

[-] Dymonika@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Like what?

[-] provisional 6 points 1 year ago

For example Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They're FOSS but they charge money for support.

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