Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

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⭐ Repos mentioned

LibreOffice

Mattermost

Nocodb

Plane

Appflowy

Jitsi

ERPNext

Coolify

Dokku

Instant

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 83 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't like statements like "paying for software is stupid". Developers for Free software have this long standing issue that many people don't want to pay them. Paying and using closed source proprietary software is stupid, especially if there is good free and open source libre alternatives.

We need to figure out a monetization plan how to make people want to pay for free software. This will not only incentivize doing Free software, it also makes it possible for people making a living out of it. Everyone benefits from it!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe it's time to start funding software infrastructure the way we fund physical infrastructure - with tax dollars.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 weeks ago

https://publiccode.eu/en/

[–] anzo@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

Or euros

[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

aGPLv3 is a good business model. If companies are using your kit in their closed source projects, they need to pay you

donationware is abandonware. We brand it Apache2.0 or MIT