Everyone Wants To Solve Open Source Funding

The problem of open source funding is very complex and I think everyone ultimately wants to solve it, the problem is that there's a lot of different ways that it could be solved.
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[@m4rt_]

I understand working full time making proprietary software to pay the bills, but I personally refuse to work for companies like Google, Microsoft, etc, because of moral issues. There can be a difference between proprietary software, and software that is privacy invasive.

[@miavelvet]

Devs of proprietary software can just lie to you that they dont collect data and collect it anyway thats how it works in most cases

[@giorgos-4515]

Freedom as in speech not beer, but it is not emphasized enough, open source is like ethically sourced materials, most people would not have a problem paying an amount to support a software(Zotero,Stremio are excellent pieces of software that im sure people would even pay for).

[@grokitall]

i think part of the problem is the conflation of the open source development model which often results in free software, and the open source license which is not quite the same thing, and this arises from the initial creation of the term as a more palatable way of selling free software. futo clearly uses an open source development model without using an open source compatible license, due to the additional constraints.

[@grokitall]

what is needed on licensing is something like the creative commons license chooser, where you choose your constraints and it tells you which license applies. for free software it can choose between fsf approved licenses. for open source it can choose between osi approved licenses for source available software, new license types would need to be developed, but we have a number of sets of restrictions already present in licenses mutated from open source licenses. of course there would have to be exceptions for automatically reverting abandonware to an open source software, and options for how to allow others to provide commercial services like hosting and support while providing income to the original project, but that is all doable.

[@moetocafe]

this is legally NOT possible: "automatically reverting abandonware to an open source software"

[@guss77]

Representing Stallman as "you should only write free software or dוe" is completely wrong and misleading: Stallman repeatedly says that open source developers should work for large companies making internal and business specific software while working on free software (hopefu6the two things are can be the same thing).