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This is some bullshit right here.Most of us spend $10 a day on crap.Why is paying for software that is useful so "I cant justify it?".

We need to realize that paying for software is something we have to do otherwise we will end up being the products.

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Not OP. Part of the reason I don't feel like spending $10 for this particular software (I pay for quite a bit of software every month FWIW) is the infinite variety that exists in the digital world : I could pay for OneDrive separately and 1Password separately and still have a few bucks left over. Or I could host something on S3 and use BitWarden for passwords .. you get the drift. The bigger point is that unlike the physical world where I am more or less limited by geography and time to buy "crap", I can pick and choose what I want to pay for. In this particular case, I think the AUD 19 for Dropbox (Plus or whatever it is called) is way too steep for the use it provides.

We IT workers are one of the most privileged people on planet earth.We earn a lot of money and can work from anywhere and yet we have decided to be manipulated by the Big Corporations to do the wrong thing.

Behind every open source project is a qualified individual that is doing something else and is paid well.Instead of working on what matters to him and earning a livable wage he has to slave away for some shitty corporation that pays him to write meaningless software.

We, the most privileged people have decided to vote with our wallets and we voted wrong.

I dont say you have to pay for it no matter what.If you dont need it you dont pay for it but pretending the "price is too steep and you cant afford it" is just lying to yourself and to us.

Are we still talking about Dropbox? What has that got to do with opensource?

I think he's talking about Bitwarden beeing names as an alternative to Dropbox Passwords.

Exactly. I use KeePass for password management, and Dropbox for conveniently syncing a set of common files across my devices. It’s a convenience, but not a necessity. That’s worth something to me, but it’s not $20 a month of value. It’s more like $3-10, depending on volume of content. For more than $10 per month I would rather buy some hard drives and host it myself from home with nextcloud or similar. I have plenty fast enough internet for the task, so it’s simply a question of value.

I don’t have a problem paying (and I do pay for plenty of services), but I need to be receiving value in return.

Imagine two arbitrary craps. Each costing $10. One includes unlimited use of Microsoft Office programs across all your computers and phones.

Now imagine the one with office costs only $8.

It’s not paying for software (although this is a service not software) it’s critically thinking about prices and comparing costs.

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