On: Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?

[pjmlp]

99% of FOSS consumers only care about free beer, hence the uptake on MIT like licenses.

[carlhjerpe → pjmlp]

If you remove FOSS from the sentence I believe you more.

[pjmlp → carlhjerpe]

If I take FOSS from the sentence, then piracy also counts and those don't care about the code in any form.

[Fnoord → pjmlp]

Where did you derive that number from?

[mickael-kerjean → Fnoord]

Not parent but if 1% of the people who use my FOSS software [1] did pay for it, I'd be making a pretty good salary. I'm just a datapoint but my contributions don't cover the server cost alone and out of the many companies who did contact me, I've refused almost all of them as I'd be making more money flipping burgers than what they were willing to offer considering the time involvement

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

[jakeva → mickael-kerjean]

I'm confused, would you be making a pretty good salary or would you be making more money flipping burgers?

[slow_donkey → mickael-kerjean]

I was just looking for an s3 browser. Will give this a whirl

[pjmlp → Fnoord]

Gut feeling from what gets discussed over here and other channels when someone posts news about commercial tools or GPL dual licensed based stuff.

Hordes of complains about paying for something, followed by MIT like licenses based clones.