In 2004, a friend and I tried to do something along these lines, a structured system to remunerate open source developers (among producers of other types of dig

In 2004, a friend and I tried to do something along these lines, a structured system to remunerate open source developers (among producers of other types of digital works). I remember trying to pitch a presentation for one of the Debian conferences, and hoping to extend deb packages with the signed metadata. No one was interested-- mostly our fault, but also ahead of its time (no blockchain, and popular indexes like PyPI were just being born). http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro