First part of your logic I respectfully disagree. Don’t forget that most of those proprietary software don’t make money by your payment, but by your data. You are the product yada yada. I do not therefore expect a “lower price” for software that doesn’t track and serve me more ads with a shovel. The fact that I get it for free and can choose to pay (donate) for it is an amazing plus.
Second part I fully agree though. A simple example for me is: Linux distro > KDE > Firefox > Lemmy > PeerTube instance > Content Creator. It gets out of hand really fast.
First part of your logic I respectfully disagree. Don’t forget that most of those proprietary software don’t make money by your payment, but by your data. You are the product yada yada. I do not therefore expect a “lower price” for software that doesn’t track and serve me more ads with a shovel. The fact that I get it for free and can choose to pay (donate) for it is an amazing plus.
Second part I fully agree though. A simple example for me is: Linux distro > KDE > Firefox > Lemmy > PeerTube instance > Content Creator. It gets out of hand really fast.