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1. 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:36:23 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘
   > Be me
   
   > Use foss os and software
   
   > Write a script that utilizes and relies upon foss os and software to save significant time in my law practice.
   
   > Tell boomer that knows I use foss os and software about my script.
   
   > Boomer: "You should try to sell it to other lawyers."
   
   Why are boomers like this?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:50:35 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Humpleupagus IDK man, this seems gaytarded

     “hey you could feed your kids, enhance their position in the world with that-“

     “uhhhhh ew. That’s against the principles of free and OPEN SOURCE software”

     It’s cool but not enough people play by that system, might as well get what’s yours just like they do

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:10:49 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • John Rando

     @john_rando @Humpleupagus Selling it to nonsophisticates is easy. They probably won’t know how to trade it around, or even think about doing so if they paid for it.

     I was just talking to a guy who had people bothering him about making an updated GUI app that only really acted to program network switches. All it did was turn mouse clicks into terminal commands. Tiny thing that took him an afternoon of work but it’s been working for 10+ years behind the scenes, and it bought him a new car in college.

   • John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:10:50 JST John Rando

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Humpleupagus A script though? Even if you wanted to sell it, keeping it from just being copied and freely distributed is next to impossible. Now, keeping it a trade secret and using it to gain unsurpassed advantage over your competitors, that could work.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:11:54 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Humpleupagus Yeah yeah, we can get back to that wonderful world when the pajeets are cleansed from our IT ecosystem. Until then you best look out for you and yours, leaving money on the table out of honor is hard to watch

   • 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:11:55 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
   • John Rando (john_rando@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:19:37 JST John Rando

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Humpleupagus Only downside of catering to the unsophisticated rubes is if it doesn’t “just werk” they expect you to provide support, even for the most trivial things. That gets old fast.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:19:37 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • John Rando

     @john_rando @Humpleupagus Depends on pricing and how bad the money is, which is a diff. thing from shooting down the concept out of old fashioned morality. It not being worth the time is likely enough in that case.

     Weird that I’ve heard a few of these stories lately, where old ass apps that people kludged together in an afternoon come back a decade later as prospective projects.

     I don’t like seeing people leave money on the table, I’ve done it too many times myself thinking I was being cool only to have someone exploit the opportunity anyways. I knew one kid who worked on an indie game for years, published it for free and never saw a cent for that work, but the chinks sure did.

   • 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:20:01 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     • John Rando
     I actually have a client that develops custom software for specific uses and even, at times, goes so far as to modify a chosen os to specifically operate on the chosen hardware on which the app will run. It's all highly specialized contract work that varies client to client. They do alright.
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   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 10:59:20 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     • John Rando
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Humpleupagus @john_rando Many people grew up with $500 clients in their social circle and fear that they'll be held to unpaid support for decades if they carelessly sell things to people.
     Same reason I get very apprehensive when family members say I should take up electronics repair, since if my customers end up anything like them, they'll balk at paying more than parts cost and all problems down the line with their (very old) gear will get blamed on me for years to come. Different matter when selling things to people that don't experience physical pain handing over money, which might be the case selling to lawyers, but then hey, maybe they're more sue-happy too!
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