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Small fee to submit open-source packages?
by gregoriol 4y ago
Small fee to submit open-source packages?
- pipo234 4y agoIe.: Open source = free as in speech, and cheap as in beer ;-)
- verdverm 4y agosounds like twitter's new strategy
- nailer 4y agoIt's a good strategy. Suddenly spam costs money.
- verdverm 4y agoDoes spam costing more money stop spam? Does it cost money per account, project, version? If I can make $100 from one victim, is this spam still profitable? What happens to the international developers who cannot easily get a payment method setup? Does a $10/m "identity verification" stop a nation state from using the platform to influence?
- pipo234 4y agoFair argument. The spam fee should be proportional to the amount of spam rather than account or fixed monthly fee. Some kind of micropayment per spam item. Per repo, or per commit / per release in case of NPM? Micropayments on internet have always proven difficult to implement. No silver bullets.
- blowski 4y agoWhen there's so much spam, there's a cost to everyone.
- oleg_antonyan 4y agoJust like things work in scientific publishing I guess
- bombolo 4y agoSo, terribly?