I'm interested. Free and proprietary software should be installed in the same way in my opinion. On 07/07/2016 12:27 AM, "Moritz Bartl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/06/2016 03:32 PM, Profpatsch wrote: > > On 16-07-06 10:16pm, Roger Qiu wrote: > >> I've been thinking about the mechanics of FOSS app stores. If you don't > want > >> to handle the payments, you need to implement a kind of > >> payment-authentication, where the principle is the same as dealing with > >> private packages. Instead the key being used is a key that is derived > from a > >> successful payment. > > A friend of mine might be onto something there, but it’s probably > > still too early to tell. > > The short story is that we've been working on setting up a hybrid > company that can "host" open source projects. Hybrid, in the sense that > it will be able to both process donations (charitable, non-profit), as > well as sales (commercial). The idea is to eventually scale to thousands > of little projects, but at the beginning we're focusing on some bigger > eggs. The idea is that you run your project, and we provide services to > handle financial issues, with a web interface for teams. Donor and > grants management, payroll, reimbursement, etc. Much like Software > Freedom Conservancy but built for larger scale, and based in Europe. > > If this sounds interesting, we have some preliminary documentation > online which I'm happy to share a link to off-list. Please do not > publicly spread it just yet on mailing lists or Twitter or the like, but > it's fine to pass along to other interested individuals. > > Moritz >
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