Bold Ideas For Funding Open Source Software
Bold Ideas For Funding Open Source Software
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Paging the “how can we monetize peertube” dude that went aggro on the fediverse community few days ago.
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev
I don't think there's a barrier to monetizing beyond developer motivation to write it. Though, I also like strange ideas like providing users the ability to sell irrevocable advertising space next to their comments as NFTs if they have these ads enabled.
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Yeah, brands would love to pay for advertising space in "ifuckedyourmom" user posts about how hitler was such a nice guy after all.
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Yes but IMO the merge conflict PPV would work and be awesome, and the straight-up bribery already works.
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The guy doing the bribing is never dumb enough to take over maintaining it though 8(
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saving so I have a baseline of what not to do
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Microsoft: saving so I have a baseline
of what not to dofor our GitHub 2025 roadmap
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Rebrand Github as an MMO were people fight for code dominance.
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Literally buy me a coffee and deliver it straight to my house.
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Man the last one really hits home. I would transfer all of my github projects for a stable livable job
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What's your area of expertise? In my experience software jobs that pay a livable wage are pretty common, it's finding one that isn't miserable work for a terrible company that's the tricky part.
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Bottom left one is laughable. I don't think we'd have Mongo, Elastic, and Redis all on SSPL if that was true. (And yes, I know this post is a joke, I'm not trying to suggest it was a real suggestion.)
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