school administration software

TAHIR · April 21, 2024, 07:28:07 AM

All are paided.no one freely available like FET. 😢

Volker Dirr · April 21, 2024, 09:58:27 AM

All tools from category A are free (open source).
All Germany tools from category B are also free (free to use, but not all open source).

Do you offer free software and services?
FET is only "free", because Liviu and me spend a lot of time and money into this project. Luckily also a few other guys spent money (see donation page) or time (translators and moderators, ...). So if you like FET or other "free" software, then be fair and pay the developers, since they need money to buy food, pay the flat, pay the web server, ... Just count the money from the donation page. You will see that it is impossible to pay web server, current and food from that money. In fact there isn't enough money to rent a flat from that money. I can't count how many hours i spent into coding FET, translating FET, helping in the forum, ... And I got exactly 0 € donations so far in all that many years. That is exactly the reason why I was forced to publish TiTiTo closed source only. But even with that money I still haven't got enough to pay the mirror server so that guys like you can download FET and other software for free...

Benahmed Abdelkrim · April 21, 2024, 08:50:13 PM

Quote from: Volker Dirr on April 21, 2024, 09:58:27 AMAll tools from category A are free (open source).
All Germany tools from category B are also free (free to use, but not all open source).

Do you offer free software and services?
FET is only "free", because Liviu and me spend a lot of time and money into this project. Luckily also a few other guys spent money (see donation page) or time (translators and moderators, ...). So if you like FET or other "free" software, then be fair and pay the developers, since they need money to buy food, pay the flat, pay the web server, ... Just count the money from the donation page. You will see that it is impossible to pay web server, current and food from that money. In fact there isn't enough money to rent a flat from that money. I can't count how many hours i spent into coding FET, translating FET, helping in the forum, ... And I got exactly 0 € donations so far in all that many years. That is exactly the reason why I was forced to publish TiTiTo closed source only. But even with that money I still haven't got enough to pay the mirror server so that guys like you can download FET and other software for free...

The sad reality unfortunately!? 😥😭

Volker Dirr · April 21, 2024, 09:23:53 PM

Yes, sadly a very difficult topic. And there are even more worse problems because of unpaid open source coders. Just read about the Linux news from this month. The news about the backdoor attacks on the xz utils of Linux. If you read the background stories it is in fact only possible, because most of (the low number of) open source developers are not paid. I love open source, but it is working only if a lot of guys are helping. It doesn't work if a lot of guys are using it only without helping.

Benahmed Abdelkrim · April 21, 2024, 09:51:52 PM

Yes you are right, user help would be very useful for the improvement of the application and the survival of the developer. but we are going through very difficult times. Hoping this changes very soon...

TAHIR · April 22, 2024, 01:07:27 PM

All are paided 😟. No one is free like FET. 😟

Volker Dirr · April 22, 2024, 07:17:19 PM

What are you always talking about "all are paid"?
All from category A are FREE / open source (all are at least in English).
Also all German applications from category B are also FREE (to use. At least one is party open source (the server so far only, not the client. The cient is "only" free to use).