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GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
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Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
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Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#23Classic mistake.
FOSS is not about making money. In fact, it's antithetical to making money.
Value extraction is the province of closed source/user hostile software, by nature.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#24I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
> if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but does this mean that you cannot submit a bug report unless you donate to them?
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#25Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#26> it made 93$ in 2.5 years
> When was the last time you chose a value above 1$
> you're a saint for choosing 2.5$
> OMFG THIS SHIRT IS 20$
For the record: the dollar sign comes before the number. I'll take the downvotes, I just can't stand it. I did read the article, and my heart goes out to the author.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#27I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
> if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but does this mean that you cannot submit a bug report unless you donate to them?
users who use their product are probably assumed to be working on enterprise market already, hence a weird B2B model in an open community.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#28I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
> if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but does this mean that you cannot submit a bug report unless you donate to them?
Yes. And this is answered in more detail on the linked page.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#29I put up a donation link (before GitHub sponsors was introduced) on a repo that had 5k+ stars. Got just one recurring donation (about $1 a month). This wasn't a s/w tool though (tutorials for CLI text processing).
Later, I switched to creating books out of such tutorials. I gave them away for free during launch weeks (but readers could still pay if they wish) and this model worked so well that selling programming ebooks is now my primary source of income.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#30I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
> if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. Maybe I’m misunderstanding but does this mean that you cannot submit a bug report unless you donate to them?
My reading of it on their page was that they are free to ignore your bug report unless you donate to them.
You didn't pay? Well, that's just, like, your bug report, man...
Essentially it boils down to: you cared enough to submit a bug report? Then you should also care enough to donate.