I've gotten my work to pay a "Neovim subscription" for two years - Lemmy

I posted about this on Reddit a year ago [https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/12qvlk0/i_got_the_company_i_work_for_to_donate_to_neovim/], and I figured write about it again: > Like most companies, the one I work for will happilly pay for any employee’s license to a proprietary IDE without batting an eye. Therefore, I argued that I should be able to spend that budget on a donation to an open source tool that I use daily instead. After a lot of back and forth I finally got them to donate an amount that would correspond to what they would pay for a yearly subscription to a proprietary tool to Neovim. > > Do you use Neovim at work? If so, I urge you to do the same thing! That way the core team can continue to deliver awesome new features to the editor we all love. Here’s a link to where you can donate [https://opencollective.com/neovim/donate]. I now got my work to pay a $400 yearly “Neovim subscription” for the second time. To those wondering how I did it, I basically just argued that since employees at my work have an allocated budget for buying proprietary tools, it makes sense if we could spend an equivalent amount on a FOSS alternative. That way the money spent would benefit us all, and since we use the tool to make money we have a responsibility to give back to the FOSS project. There was a bit of a back-and forth for technical reasons because (at least in Sweden where I live), payments and donations are handled and regulated differently, but they finally made it work. If you also use Neovim for work, I encourage you to do the same thing! That way the core team can continue to deliver awesome new features to the editor we all love. Here’s a link to where you can donate [https://opencollective.com/neovim/donate]. There’s also the official merch store if you would like to support the project that way: https://store.neovim.io/ [https://store.neovim.io/].