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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Two reasons:

  1. because "free" often means there is an ulterior motive for providing the service (see: search)

  2. because developers need to eat, and servers cost money. Paying for goods and services helps keep them from collapsing under their own weight.

Big for profit businesses are generally bad, but small dev teams transparent about their costs just trying to live comfortably? They can have my money.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 9 points 7 hours ago
  1. because "free" often means there is an ulterior motive for providing the service (see: search)

Maybe this is true for some cases, but it's not for jellyfin. It's simply open source and free like tons of other utilities people work on for the fun of it. If it were closed source maybe you'd be right.

Agree on number 2 though.