FreeCAD for children! Reading age 10-18 years... Didn't someone cry about FreeCADs steep learning curve ?
I really wonder if this is legal to make money with a Open source project? looking at Linux I believe it is.
It is really ugly if you doing it without even corresponding to the project owner!
adrianinsaval wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:25 am
This type of monetisation is perfectly fine and legal, the guy should really hire a designer for the covers though
Probably not the best approach becoming rich fast anyway. His top seller rank in commercial graphics design is in the 5 digits range. For comparision, "Skizzenbuch" (Sketchbook - 109 empty pages) is rank #76.
It describes how the tech and content firms are choking out competition so that they can take the lion's share of any revenue generated before it ever reaches the artists and others who actually did the creative work.
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Amazon has been the master of this playbook, she said; the company even made a diagram to describe it (...) What's really happening is that Amazon has always focused on locking in its customers (...) Amazon then uses the money it squeezed out to subsidize prices in order to eliminate competitors who actually pay fairly
Remember that GitHub is Microsoft, and Microsoft is no stranger to under-the-belt tactics.
It's a bit concerning that we're now in this situation where Microsoft, and by proxy the post-9/11 US government, controls the largest public meeting space for free software development on the internet.
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Long story short, the free-software community has long benefited from cheap hosting and communications provision. We now pay the price for our laziness, because all the infrastructure was there and was left to rot. It was just not sexy enough to maintain it
This latter will probably hit us sooner than we would like it.
Zolko wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:06 am
This latter will probably hit us sooner than we would like it.
That's not just a FreeCAD problem and not even just a FOSS problem, but a general one: if everything MS would vanish tomorrow (or even just getting unavailable, by, say, an arbitrary price increase), the world would suddenly stop functioning or at least seriously struggle. Having Twitter in one single (dubious) hand as everybody appears to be furious about is just peanuts in comparison.
Industry, society and governments are intrinsically tied to MS products. I'm afraid that battle is long lost.