- cross-posted to:
- opensource@lemmy.ml
- programming@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- opensource@lemmy.ml
- programming@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698
Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.
“When we switched over from having a ‘Donate’ button right next to the download button, to having that ‘pay what you want including $0′ format, the amount of revenue we were making increased by 10x,” Foré shares. “That small design change increased revenue a ton.”