I have an idea:
OnlyDesks. It’s an onlyfans account for FOSS devs. Not a different site, just a straight up only fans account. You sub to it, and you get to watch a FOSS dev sit at their desk and do their stuff. You cannot interact with them, you can just check in on the webcam, like those sites where you can see the cats in a rescue. The feed is randomized, so whenever they’re live (does OF do live?), it is completely random which dev you’ll get, but you can go back through the past videos to see your favorite moments (opening yet another can of monster energy yet) again and again.
If all the Linux users sign up for the 9.99 a month tier, we’ll have the year of the Linux desktop in no time!
Actually, why isn’t this a thing though? Kinda like Distrowatch but with FOSS projects. Have a top 10%, Popularly used, New, etc categories too. You can do monthly subscriptions of small amounts, or larger ones with something like
# This project sponsored by: meowymeow, Fossdom4Ever, Linoos, KitekiteIn a .env file or a readme. They could also donate stickers /badges a project page as well as one time donations.
Would I be able to dispense kibble and turkey cubes for them too?
Me, on OnlyDesks:
500 megagigs hard drive?
Mega grams. It comes with 50 metric tons of storage.
Megagigs is the way to go. What did you expect, megabytes? What are you, a looneytune?
wtf is “built in spreadsheet capabilities”?
It came with WordPerfect preinstalled lol
Like X, spread shit capabilities
Someone, somewhere, is running Xubuntu on that thing
I’m pretty sure Tiny Core is the only modern OS that can run on 12 MB RAM lol
Edit. Found muLinux that can run with 4 MB RAM, but it looks abandoned.
I’ve seen some Twitch streams where indie game devs will do this, especially during early access to promote the game and get feedback from the community. It seems like a neat idea but is probably grueling to “perform” while developing.
I think there are free software devs (e.g. KDE) who livestream their work now too already.
Skywind also does this.
With a $50 donation you can make them insert any comment you want.
For $100 they’ll merge your PR of ascii cat memes into main.
Just cut the middleman and donate to the foss projects without making some corporation richer, please
Most FOSS users use FOSS because of the first letter in the word. If FOSS users were happy to pay €10 a month, the funding problem for FOSS would be long gone.
But ask yourself: when did you last donate money to FOSS?
Yeah, but, it does.
Yes, you might be able to ask for money for the service of distributing or servicing GPL code. But then again: if it’s not actually free as in free beer, nobody’s going to use it.
Check out this article: https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Open-Source-Entwickler-arbeiten-sich-an-AI-Bugs-krank-11308345.html
Curl currently has a whopping 23 sponsors. Curl. You know, that basic piece of software shipped on pretty much every single device running some form of Linux-based OS.
The same goes for pretty much every project, especially those that aren’t directly user-facing.
I was just being pedantic and corrected what is meant by the term “free software”, not actually arguing for or against what you were saying :)
Yes, of course, a project being paid will mean that a lot fewer people will actually use it. I wouldn’t say nobody, though. As an example, there’s the DeArrow browser addon which is free, but costs $1 once (with easy ways to circumvent that payment). Yet many people have paid for it anyway.
As for curl, the article says that the 23 sponsors you mentioned are only corporate sponsors. There are hundreds of people donating to the curl project, which is probably still unreasonably low, but not as dire as “only 23” would suggest. Obviously each of these donates a much lower amount, so it may still not amount to much (but I don’t know enough to say that).
But in the end, as I said, you’re probably mostly right, there would be very few users of free software if it was paid. Although there are also lots of users of proprietary paid software, so who knows.
Yeah, “nobody” was obviously a bit polemic, but if you’d have to pay the same money for FOSS as for CSS, I doubt many people would pay for e.g. Gimp over Photoshop.
Also, there’s the structure issue. Windows is developed mostly in-house, and the few bits they don’t DIY they pay for.
An average Linux distro is developed by easily over 1000 individual little projects. And yes, theoretically people could pay for Fedora, and the Fedora people then pay a whole tree of dependant projects, but that would be incredibly complicated.
Free as in speech, friend. I donate to multiple FOSS projects every month.
You, out of how many users?
Curl has currently 23 sponsors, worldwide (https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Open-Source-Entwickler-arbeiten-sich-an-AI-Bugs-krank-11308345.html).
And these sponsors aren’t big spenders. And that’s a software running on billions of devices.
I don’t mind paying for the beer so long as the speech is free.
I can respect the speakeasy mindset
If it’s something i use regularly and i don’t hate i buy a license or make a dono.
Holy crap, dejavu. For awhile, this was one of the ideas I had considered for getting paid. As part training, part voyeurism, but on YT not OF. But I am antigoogle so I nixed the idea.
I think I like this more:
Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated)
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