@bert_hubert That's a strong text. To an extent, I can relate.

The text doesn't seems to differentiate between 'anonymous' to 'non-paying' help-seekers, which confuses me a bit. The text even implies that people are anonymous because procurement doesn't understand paying for free software.

Aren't those two different things in your experience? My experience is that people not wanting to pay (or not even considering that payment is "a thing") mostly happily use their corporate email.

@bert_hubert You are plenty generous in offering them compassion in the pain it takes a big company to pay many for things they use. It's great that there are people with such big hearts. Please, accept my sincere admiration!

@bert_hubert Sucks that these orgs won't acknowledge the FOSS people that keep the internet, and most other things, on. I'm just one guy working somewhere that most people will never know about, but I at least appreciate all the work you guys do to keep the lights blinking.

@bert_hubert especially bigger corporations could affort to pay for open-source software. They don't get their Microsoft or Apple stuff for free either. It should be natural to pay for software they use. Even we (retired couple, private, definitely not rich) contribute to authors of software when we tried it out and decided to stick with it.
Yes, here on :mastodon: , too!

@bert_hubert That is just sad.