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Let me pay for Firefox

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803 points csmantle | 2 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.886s | source
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lenkite ◴[13 Jul 25 10:07 UTC] No.44549029[source]▶
I would happily pay monthly for Firefox - but not to Mozilla Corporation. Will Pay to developers, development support and operations - not to pad the CEO salary.
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delusional ◴[13 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44549205[source]▶
Yet we happily do that for everything else.

Either software developers have to figure out how to out compete the CEO ghouls (without becoming CEO ghouls themselves), or we just have to accept that the CEO ghouls will take their cut. There's no version of this where you can pay for a service, but also dictate how that money is spent.

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archerx ◴[13 Jul 25 11:25 UTC] No.44549481[source]▶
>There's no version of this where you can pay for a service, but also dictate how that money is spent.

Well then I’m just not going to pay.

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1. delusional ◴[13 Jul 25 11:43 UTC] No.44549592[source]▶
What I'm trying to get at is the irony that making that choice just incentivizes everybody to not give you that choice.
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2. closewith ◴[13 Jul 25 13:20 UTC] No.44550258[source]▶
We almost always have that choice. It's just unpalatable to some.