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I see what you're saying, but I can't feel sorry for people in this position. It's a no brainer that giving away a product for free won't be a sustainable way
by jlarocco 10y ago
I see what you're saying, but I can't feel sorry for people in this position.
It's a no brainer that giving away a product for free won't be a sustainable way to earn a living. It's not like there's a big mystery around how to make money off of software.
- anigbrowl 10y agoYou're right, but I would like to find a solution to that problem. If a person's skillset is in programming and not business administration, I want to see them rewarded for the value they create without their being reduced to the indignity of begging. Essentially I'm proposing private-sector communism; let's find a way to raise money from people who depend on open source, and then find a reasonably good way for figuring out who to throw some at. It doesn't have to be perfectly proportional to the popularity of what they're doing, the goal is reduce financial insecurity rather than have a Great Accounting.