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“Donate to open source projects to support their maintainers!”

[project asks for donations with a notification]

“How dare you?! What’s next, taking my pets hostage?! Shame on you for having the gall of asking me money!”

Gianmarco Gargiulo
@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno

@ebassi@mastodon.social for some reason a lot of people are convinced that it's the same as Microsoft's nagging and that such projects would somehow end up the same way, except they would have nothing to gain as they have nothing to sell.

Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming
@condret@shitposter.world

@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno @ebassi@mastodon.social it is anoying. stop begging when i'm on my puter. if i ever have money that i can donate, i will do so.

Gianmarco Gargiulo
@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno

@condret@shitposter.world @ebassi@mastodon.social at least on KDE Plasma, it appears once a year in december and disabling it permanently is a few clicks away.

Hildegunst von Mythenmetz of programming
@condret@shitposter.world

@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno @ebassi@mastodon.social on i3 it never happens, on stumpwm it never happens, on ratpoisonwm it never happens

Gianmarco Gargiulo
@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno

@condret@shitposter.world @ebassi@mastodon.social they don't need the money as they are simple programs that don't do as much.