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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by moron4hire on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:06PM (#20840437)
Oh sure, but Industry has also browbeat people into believing the GPL is completely untenable.

I've yet to see an original monetization suggestion in these threads. People have tried it all. Companies and devs prefer to wait for a poor sap to make a free-as-in-beer version and then stiff them on tips.

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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by CuriousSkeptic on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:12PM (#20844232)
Not sure it’s a good one, but how about this:

A hub of software, like github or npm could acts as a general mediator of funding. A new license could be designed such that entitles above a certain size would have to donate a percentage of revenue to the hub, while also reporting which software they which to license (this only acts as a kind of voting for where to place investments, the donation size is fixed). The hub in question could then spend the income on the various projects taking popularity in account for prioritzation.

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