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A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.

Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?

Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.

my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts

some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.

I am against

brand new accounts who:

  1. first post is a brand new project
  2. project is closed source
  3. project will cost money
  4. is asking for free testing
  5. the post is literally an advertisement
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[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm ambivalent about the topic because the goal is for us to own our servers...

Most of the hardware I use is proprietary, but at the end of the day Intel can't come and rob me of the object I paid for. Sure it will become obsolete in 10 or 20 years, but I'm still the owner.

When it comes to software, I want to own it, not just a license. Most proprietary software comes with strings attached, which is why I don't think it fits the self-hosting philosophy.

If a proprietary software was "buy it once and own the binaries forever", I wouldn't mind seeing it discussed here. (Plex with lifetime licenses comes to mind.)

However, I don't want to see advertisement for a proprietary software the same way I don't want to see ads for some specific hardware components.

That's my opinion.