• miniu@beehaw.org
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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 @memes