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[-] miniu@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Free in software should stand for freedom, not money. We need better ways for financing such software projects and creators making content on them.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah free as in freedom not as in price.

The closest anyone's come to a mechanism that would allow efficient financing of public goods like free software is quadratic funding. Unfortunately, there are unsolved issues with collusion and identity verification

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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