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Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.

🧑‍💻 https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it

#opensource #freesoftware #notfree #it #maintain #software #employment

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.

🧑‍💻 https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it

#opensource #freesoftware #notfree #it #maintain #software #employment

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.

🧑‍💻 https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it

#opensource #freesoftware #notfree #it #maintain #software #employment

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.

🧑‍💻 https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it

#opensource #freesoftware #notfree #it #maintain #software #employment

Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?

A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.

🧑‍💻 https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2026/open-source-isn-t-free-we-re-just-not-paying-for-it

#opensource #freesoftware #notfree #it #maintain #software #employment

@cr00ky @pluralistic the design is patented and locked in the CC BY NC license which means no third party replacement parts.

#NotFree

Yahoo are such a$$h0les. 100.1% Full?

#yahoo #aws #encryption #unlimited #scams #notfree #yahoomail #ai #toschange #greed #clownshit #capitalism #theallmightydollar

@Itskilian

Having to provide a name and valid email address is NOT Free!

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Awww. Too bad. Guess I’m going to be forced to use better, free email clients instead. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #proton #protonmail #notfree

I would love to live in a world where I could sometimes sell my #sourdough bread at the local market.

Sell some of the pretty earrings I make and maybe some of the plants I grow.

Run a few inclusive outdoor exercise classes here and there. Teach a few people to deadlift and squat.

All of these I love to do. But our State and the systems in it make it so that I can't do any of them without specializing in just one and still being very poor.

#NotFree #capitalism

R to @hkdc_us: Originally, it seemed most appropriate to ignore the #FakeElection because it's so clearly #NotFree & #NotFair, but now that the #HongKong government's arresting people in HK & issuing arrest warrants for people abroad who said #DontVote, it's important to show why they say that. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1732064059837542457#m

R to @hkdc_us: Originally, it seemed most appropriate to ignore the #FakeElection because it's so clearly #NotFree & #NotFair, but now that the #HongKong government's arresting people in HK & issuing arrest warrants for people abroad who said #DontVote, it's important to show why they say that. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1732064059837542457#m

R to @hkdc_us: Originally, it seemed most appropriate to ignore the #FakeElection because it's so clearly #NotFree & #NotFair, but now that the #HongKong government's arresting people in HK & issuing arrest warrants for people abroad who said #DontVote, it's important to show why they say that. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1732064059837542457#m

R to @hkdc_us: Originally, it seemed most appropriate to ignore the #FakeElection because it's so clearly #NotFree & #NotFair, but now that the #HongKong government's arresting people in HK & issuing arrest warrants for people abroad who said #DontVote, it's important to show why they say that. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1732064059837542457#m

Repeat after me:

It isn't a "free" download if you need to enter your details: name, email. Sometimes even your address, phone number and date of birth.

YOUR DATA is worth way more than the pdf/app you are getting for "free"!

#data #dataIsMoney #NotFree #fakeFreebies

Repeat after me:

It isn't a "free" download if you need to enter your details: name, email. Sometimes even your address, phone number and date of birth.

YOUR DATA is worth way more than the pdf/app you are getting for "free"!

#data #dataIsMoney #NotFree #fakeFreebies

Repeat after me:

It isn't a "free" download if you need to enter your details: name, email. Sometimes even your address, phone number and date of birth.

YOUR DATA is worth way more than the pdf/app you are getting for "free"!

#data #dataIsMoney #NotFree #fakeFreebies

@IceCubesApp #NotFree #Shareware

Hello les masto !
Je suis à la recherche d'un exemple de logiciel libre qui serait payant. C'est pour illustrer des propos distinguant logiciels gratuits et open source 😉
Des suggestions ? #software #opensource #notfree

I see Wordpress has now got the ActivityPub plugin available...

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-a-better-place-activitypub-for-wordpress-joins-the-automattic-family/

Marked as "free" - except you have to upgrade to the business plan first so it's effectively £32 per month?

#wordpress #activityPub #notFree

By the way, in case you have not noticed on your own: This #chatGPT service everyone is talking about is #NotFree according to privacy policy it will sell your e-mail addresses and telephone numbers and the data you have created.

So you may consider what you ask that KI data might be #leaked at some point.

@crickxson la standard est très bien aussi: http://www.bb-bureau.fr/post/179079092572/standard-and-pickle-standard
#font #notfree #benoitbodhuin