GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
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GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
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Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#2Great. That would mean that 98% of the github users would leave it.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#3should be the transitive dependencies, not just top-level (so the lock file or equiv) or you just reward the "barely wrap it and give it a new name" js crowd even more.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#4I paid 1 buck for WhatsApp back in the day. Better business model than what meta did with it. But we're moving closer and closer to 8 companies controlling the world. Both WhatsApp and github are owned by them.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#5I disagree, due to github copilot and other AI crap Microsoft is adding to GitHub, they should pay us 5 USD per month.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#6The first order effect of this would be great, but the following onslaught of schlinkert spam would be devastating- its bad enough now with people making garbage dependencies and sneaking them in everywhere just for clout
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#7I do like this idea, as it seems easy to implement. Github can just increase its prices by $1/month/orguser and that fund could end up with like, i think, 6 million per month. Thats a sizeable amount of money and could help in making open source more sustainable & attractive.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#8Great. That would mean that 98% of the github users would leave it.
He said only for org users. Orgs are already paying github, 4-20$ per month per user.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#9I disagree, due to github copilot and other AI crap Microsoft is adding to GitHub, they should pay us 5 USD per month.
Did you read the article? Though I can agree the title is bait.
Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
#10>it is not okay to consider that this labor fell from the sky and is a gift, and that the people/person behind are just doing it for their own enjoyments
Yes it absolutely is. That is the exact social contract people 100% willingly enter by releasing something as Free and Open Source. They do give it as a gift, in exchange for maybe the tiny bit of niche recognition that comes with it, and often times out of simple generosity. Is that really so incredible?