Software package maintainer adds an advertisement and the community balks at it.
I’m still surprised no one has added cryptocurrency as an integrated part of their package mananger.
github.com/standard/standard…
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With cryptocurrency, we can make a fractional payment to every individual contributor, transitively down the dependency chain - automatically, on install
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I built a prototype in this direction a couple of years ago, but it’s probably time to revisit
Here’s my new experiment towards a living wage in OSS: Ihan, a bitcoin-paying npm proxy. github.com/jashmenn/ihan (If I Had A Nickel…)
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Here, @feross describes his attempts at being a full-time open-source developer.
While OSS devs create a huge amount of surplus value, I’m skeptical that a donation-based platform is going to generate significant revenue
feross.org/funding-experimen…
Aug 29, 2019 · 1:10 PM UTC