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@doctormo@floss.socialUsers need service, service needs labour, labour needs money, money needs coercion, coercion needs control, control needs ownership, ownership leads to abuse.
This is how the great chain of software abuse happens. Free software has for too long focused on breaking the chain at money, instead of breaking it at coercion. We can fix this.
@doctormo I usually sell people on open source and free software from a maintenance perspective. At this point in history, most people have dealt with a device or software package that stopped receiving updates. Its another angle.
@doctormo this is a pretty interesting take. I never thought about it that way but makes quite a lot of sense.
If my understanding is correct you use patreon to achieve this. Is the patronage model the way to go for Free Software? What other alternatives do you think there are?
@doctormo I wish package managers would provide a statistical tool that analyzed installed package dependency usage in order to produce a list of software you should donate to.
Like, something as crude as a “Oi, I was using that!” button in the taskbar that unpauses a process the tool randomly selected. Such feedback would help the tool learn what the user cared about and prepare a donation recommendation JSON they could submit to some subscription donation service to distribute.