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Feature request: RSS feed, so I can see when new projects are added
Try this https://www.demandrush.com/alerts
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Yeah the market for open source is shit. You have tons of corporations deriving billions in total profit off the back of open source that contribute maybe a million back and feel that they have done some great great deed... like say Google. You could easily make the Gimp much much better with a few million in funding. The beauty of capitalism is exactly that it locks out this sort of behavior because of the way that…
I wonder if anyone has ever thought of a law that would allow for large corporations to repatriate some of their overseas dollars tax-free, or defer corporate taxes they'd otherwise have to pay, provided they went toward altruistic purposes, where one of those altruistic purposes could be contribution to broadly used open source libraries. Obviously a lot more of the details would need to be worked out to try and min…
From a quick search, it looks like the IRS does sometimes allow businesses to make deductible contributions to a 501(c)3, but that it first attempts to determine if the business expects to receive a "substantial return benefit". [0]
The IRS seems to already have specific rules around "qualified sponsorship payments". [1]
[0] https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/corporat...
[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p598/ch03.html#en_US_201701...
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Yeah the market for open source is shit. You have tons of corporations deriving billions in total profit off the back of open source that contribute maybe a million back and feel that they have done some great great deed... like say Google. You could easily make the Gimp much much better with a few million in funding. The beauty of capitalism is exactly that it locks out this sort of behavior because of the way that…
And I think copyleft licenses offer a solution here: if you are worried that corporations (or rival corporations) might monetize your product (or derive any profit from it indirectly), licensing it under a copyleft license would make their lives very, very hard. It's near impossible, for instance, to keep an AGPLv3-licensed product within a walled-garden, hence good luck while trying to build a *AAS on that.
IANAL
"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.
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This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.
Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.
"Copyright 2017 DemandRush" - I'm always surprised when I see these types of statements on US based websites. In Europe, this would make no sense. A website is not a legal entity, so it can not be a copyright holder. Does the statement make more sense in the US, or is it just a common misconception among people who build websites? The terms page says "Welcome to DemandRush, a website and online service of Grafly, Inc…
IANAL etc. but I do think it's a common misunderstanding / wishful thinking in the US (where I'm from). In the US you can just "be a company" if you want (with no liability protection), that's between you and the tax man... but if you want to give the operation a name other than your own, you have to register that name (they call it "DBA" for "Doing Business As")[0]. But at least as far back as the early 90's it's be…
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This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.
Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.
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I think that the curation aspect of it is also a big thing. Think of this as a "loot crate" for but for books. I think the service should also have _two_ services. One is for great sci-fi fantasy books of all time-- obviously that's going to be cheaper. The more expensive service would be for books that have come out in the last 2 years. For myself, I often look at the winner & nominees for the Hugo and the Nebula fo…
> I think that the curation aspect of it is also a big thing. The librarians at my public library are great at making suggestions. They also have themed book displays that they rotate every week (eg. physical fitness one week, high fantasy another etc.)
Also, the internets are filled with curated lists. Book lists have come up here on HN a number of times [1][2][3], even Sci-fi specific[4].
But I get it, push button services are very appealing, and can save a lot of time. Just click subscribe and get a constant supply of books you'll love at a reasonable price. It's a business model that can work surprising well[5].
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229312
3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556160
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That depends where you are hiring from, even within the US. You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to. Chris Webber, for example, took less than a $40k salary without benefits to work on MediaGoblin full time for a year: https://mediagoblin.org/news/we-did-it.html
> You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to. The games industry gladly takes advantage of this.
CRUD apps may be tedious, but getting a job at a local medium-sized company working on them is usually much more pleasant than working for a game developer.
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This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.
Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.