Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
I mean, at least I’m not paying $200* for the privilege of being advertised to… I’d like an option to disable it permanently in the popup but it seems mostly reasonable?
^* This is the first price I got for a Windows licence when I searched for it. I know you can probably get them cheaper, but that’s the price they’re advertising, so eh.^
People spend countless hours building the software you use for free. Now they need to buy actual hardware yo build and test that software and what? They have to pay with their own money besides all that time they spent already so that you can continue to use this for free?
You’re not forced to pay anything, they’re asking for small donations
Either i wasn’t clear or you are replying to the wrong person, but i am in support of foss projects asking for donations in a reasonable manor such as this
Comparing prices between Windows computers and the Linux equivalent of the same model, the OEM license seems to come for free. The Linux versions even seem to be more expensive on average because fewer stores stock them.
The independent Windows licenses come with support and warranty directly from Microsoft, something you don’t get when you buy Windows through an OEM like most people do.
I mean, at least I’m not paying $200* for the privilege of being advertised to… I’d like an option to disable it permanently in the popup but it seems mostly reasonable?
^* This is the first price I got for a Windows licence when I searched for it. I know you can probably get them cheaper, but that’s the price they’re advertising, so eh.^
There is an option to disable it permanently. Otherwise it is once a year and easily dismissed
Why?
People spend countless hours building the software you use for free. Now they need to buy actual hardware yo build and test that software and what? They have to pay with their own money besides all that time they spent already so that you can continue to use this for free?
You’re not forced to pay anything, they’re asking for small donations
Either i wasn’t clear or you are replying to the wrong person, but i am in support of foss projects asking for donations in a reasonable manor such as this
Comparing prices between Windows computers and the Linux equivalent of the same model, the OEM license seems to come for free. The Linux versions even seem to be more expensive on average because fewer stores stock them.
The independent Windows licenses come with support and warranty directly from Microsoft, something you don’t get when you buy Windows through an OEM like most people do.