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  • Most open source projects will have a donation page / link, so it relies on people feeling compelled to donate because the software provided is useful to them.

    Lemmy for example has options for financially supporting its development. Some Lemmy instances also feature a link to a donation page to cover the hosting costs.

    Some have an organisation behind it, like Firefox has the Mozilla Foundation to finance it. Actually it’s the other way around, see ahal’s comment below

    The team behind VLC has a “for profit” branch that adapts the video software for companies, allowing them to also finance VLC’s development in addition to donations.








  • inlandempire@jlai.lutoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldPraise the sun!
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    1 month ago

    This is a point brought up in Scorcese’s Silence (maybe also in the novel written by Endo, which the film was written from) :

    Ferreira: Francis Xavier came here to teach the Japanese about the son of God. But first he had to ask how to refer to God. “Dainichi”, he was told. And shall I show you their Dainichi?

    [He points to the sun in the sky]

    Ferreira: Behold… there is the SUN of God. God’s only begotten sun. In the scriptures Jesus rose on the third day. In Japan… the sun of God rises daily.

    context of the movie

    Portuguese Christians receive the news that a high priest in Japan - sent to convert the Japanese - has renounced his faith, they send three priests to find where he is




  • A simple way to debunk your claims is to simply look at real life examples that show it actually exists, and hope the goalposts will not move ala “but it wasn’t large scale so it doesn’t count”

    1 - SCOP is a type of company in France where employees are owners of the company. This is not yet socialism although it shares the philosophy/ideals. There is no hierarchy in a SCOP. Duralex, french makers of glassware just recently changed their structure to become a worker owned SCOP. Motion Twin, the company behind the game Dead Cells has been a SCOP for years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

    2 - In the capitalist world it is indeed hard to emancipate from the interconnection with everyone and everything, which is why revolutionaries’ main goal is to destroy capitalism. You can’t envision a different type of organisation for society because capitalism has become so prevalent it tries to impose itself as the only solution. Look for smaller scale examples of autonomous, self sufficient communities, I’m not talking about uncontacted native tribes, there are, all over the world, tons of examples of small communities trying to rethink how we can restructure society away from the capital. Extrapolate from these examples and you’ll have a glimpse of how this could work at a larger scale.