- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-donation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software#Voluntary_donations
- http://alternativeto.net/software/gittip/ (TIL GitTip is now Gratipay) - https://gratipay.com/about/ ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_table ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program ... On Saturday, July 23, 2016, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dho...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> Have you seen https://rubytogether.org ? It looks like exactly what you >> are proposing, only with more blocks. >> > > Interesting. I hadn't heard of that before now. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "with more blocks", but that idea seems > focused on funding core Ruby infrastructure, whereas I'm proposing a way > for users to fund any Python project they want, with the added benefit that > by funding those projects they automatically also fund core Python > infrastructure too. > > A rough -- but in my view very apt -- analogy for what I'm proposing would > be the iOS App Store. Users buy apps they want; when that happens, the app > developers benefit by getting paid for their work, and the general iOS > ecosystem also benefits since the maintainer of that ecosystem, Apple, gets > a cut of those payments. > > Of course, in our case we are talking about voluntary monetary > contributions and not prices, and we are talking about tiny fees and not > 15-30% cuts. But the basic idea is the same: Fund the core infrastructure > by capturing some of the value generated by that infrastructure. > > The core infrastructure would be things like PyPI, tooling like pip, and > Python itself. The value generated by that infrastructure, for the purposes > of this discussion, would be the monetary contributions people made to > projects they appreciated. And capturing some of that value would be taking > a tiny cut out of those contributions and reinvesting it in the core. > > Nick > >
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