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Are you seriously claiming that adware is the only way for a programmer to make money?



How would you do it? If nobody sells your software, and nobody is donating.


Get a different job? It may not have anything to do with FileZilla but no software developer with a successful open source project on their resume is forced to use adware. I'd understand if they were unable to work for whatever reason, but FileZilla development looks too active for that.


The issue with that is so much of the software industry is propped up by advertising. There is nowhere to go without being involved with ads, so why fight it?




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