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Same here. Honestly didn't realize they had no model for income.

• moviuro 9y ago
  There are lots of excellent projects that have income issues: GnuPG, OpenBSD to cite the most prominent ones. https://www.gnupg.org/donate/index.html https://www.gnupg.org/donate/index.html (though they are at ~€5k/month now?) http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2018.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2018.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
  • johnnycarcin 9y ago
    What is annoying is many groups like this make it hard for us that have employers that will match donations for non-profits to donate. I tried to get OpenBSD added to our companies system awhile back but the group that manages that process said they did not get a response from the OpenBSD group when they reached out to them to get a bit of information. I can (and do) donate outside of my companies process, but they are missing out on additional money.
• bpicolo 9y ago
  Someone wanted to give them millions to put ads on it, but the primary maintainer said no way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048
  • jbk 9y ago
    That would be me :)
    • bpicolo 9y ago
      Out of curiosity, have you considered monetization strategies like an open pay-per-video store? VLC is awesome, and I kind of wish it got the monetary compensation it deserves hah. I've heard that indie movie distribution is a dreadful space.
      • etix 9y ago
        We are exploring some ways but we have nothing to announce yet.
      • jbk 9y ago
        Such things does not exist because of copyright holders forces DRM
        • mgkimsal 9y ago
          Certainly no expert in the field here, but maybe a store/market built around vimeo's "on demand" stuff? A partnership with vimeo whereby VLC would get a % of sales when purchased via VLC might help both parties (more exposure to vimeo via VLC, revenue for VLC, etc).
          • pathseeker 9y ago
            Is vimeo on-demand DRM free?
            • mgkimsal 9y ago
              https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/224821167-Does-Vimeo-use-Digital-Rights-Management-DRM-to-keep-people-from-pirating-videos-?flash_digest=f4af29f7cabff13d806ad63912002ac1e635cc3a https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/224821167-Does-Vime... It seems that it's up to the content owners as to how much they would want to enable. https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235694348-How-to-buy-rent-and-subscribe-to-On-Demand-videos https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235694348-How-to-bu... "When you buy a VOD, you will be able to stream its videos for as long as they remain on Vimeo. If the seller allows, you will also be able to download the videos to your computer and devices, DRM-free."
            • jadbox 9y ago
              Is it not.
    • madez 9y ago
      Thanks so much for it! I naively thought free projects were as resistant as VLC when it comes to manipulation for the sake of money, but big and even often cheered ones gave in. A bad business model can be worse than having none.
    • mbesto 9y ago
      Thanks - just sent you guys $50.
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