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by alanpham 774 days ago
I would rather typing each letter our than pay $5 for a Lorem Ipsum Generator haha
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I'd rather pay for things than use "free" things that aren't reliable and end up eating my time to get them working again.

Even a small fee generally is enough to keep the person who created it interested in maintaining it and improving it.

I understand the sentiment, but this is why we have the free software sustainability crisis. https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/open-source-has-a-sustainabi... https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability....

The time taken to type out Lorem Ipsum would be worth more than $5. I know you have other options in this case, but why would you prefer to waste your time than spend money?

Wait what? Where is the free software here?

In fact this app seems very sketchy, since its website is dead, and its description states "And it’s completely free!" while it's not.