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The project needs a copyleft licence. That means the things are given away with a contract that states that they have to remain free and selling is forbidden.

• faeyanpiraat 6y ago
  How would you enforce it?
  • morsch 6y ago
    How about adding a easy to add but hard to remove tag to stuff like clothes. Or a stamp to books. That way the buyer would at least realise that they bought stuff the seller received for free (and possibly give appropriate feedback/ratings). Of course the seller could remove the mark, but that just needs to be difficult enough to make it not worth their time.
  • pessimizer 6y ago
    I haven't been there in 15 years, but the free bookstore in Baltimore used a stamp in the inside cover: https://bookthing.org/ https://bookthing.org/ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baltimore+book+thing+stamp&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com%2Fbphoto%2Fl_fsd_zSWDB6rNAXRk1nRw%2F348s.jpg https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baltimore+book+thing+stamp&iar=ima...
• kumarsw 6y ago
  That goes explicitly against the code of buy nothing which is to reduce consumption and give freely with no strings attached. Obviously it's still a problem if someone is monopolizing donations as that discourages participation by a lot of people and hurts the community aspect of BN. As some other commenters have mentioned, a good mitigating strategy is to encourage giving to a random commenter after a couple hours have passed rather than first-come-first-serve.
  • npteljes 6y ago
    I think this just shows that unregulated, no strings attached, anarchy style, etc is low hanging fruit for exploitation. Exploitation happens, and we need to deal with it, in my opinion, with attaching some strings. Like with the difference of the AGPL and the MIT license. Your mitigation strategy would work though too, I think. If it's a raffle kind of thing, then the resellers wouldn't have such an easy time, so it makes this thing less desirable for them.