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A lot of people and companies are making money from Linux, including Linus Torvalds and many kernel hackers. Linux is GPL’d. I think it is hard to make the claim that making money is antithetical to FOSS.
This is quite the definition of an outlier.
> 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.
Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent. Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.
A method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.
Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent. Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.
I'm assuming this question would be on-topic to this thread because it is essentially, "If someone DOES want to help you to pay your rent, or at least for a week's worth of coffee, where's the best place for that?"
As moderator of Reddit, now I question myself why I am doing it for free.
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From the link: But it is MIT, can't I use it for free? Yes all projects are under MIT so the community backing honesty system can be ignored and Fody used for free. Do I need to be a Patron to contribute a Pull Request? Yes. Users must be a Patron to be a user of Fody. Contributing Pull Requests does not cancel this out. It may seem unfair to expect people both contribute PRs and also financially back this project. H…
> Many developers can afford $36 a year You realize that my dependency stack contains about 2500 dependencies right? If they all follow this model I’m looking at $90k/year just to contribute to a project.
May I ask: let's say I am Joe Schmoe, an individual, not a corporation. But I have a particular need for coding done in, say, AutoHotKey or as an Outlook macro. I wish to pay someone for this small coding project. What is the best forum to do this exchange? I'm assuming this question would be on-topic to this thread because it is essentially, "If someone DOES want to help you to pay your rent, or at least for a week'…
> it made 93$ 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.
That convention is regional and, increasingly in the US, generational.
> In the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Pacific Island nations, and English-speaking Canada, the sign is written before the number ("$5"), even though the word is written or spoken after it ("five dollars", "cinco pesos"). In French-speaking Canada, exceptionally, the dollar symbol usually appears after the number, e.g., "5$".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Prefix_or_suffix
The linked article appears to be talking about U.S. dollars, and all evidence points to it being written in English, so I don't believe the regional usage is relevant.
It's hard to argue what the accepted usage will be in future generations, but using the dollar sign as a suffix does not appear to have become accepted by any institutions I'm aware of at the moment. Distinguishing a simple mistake from a visionary act of linguistic prophecy is beyond my capabilities.
If you can point me at a reference that makes a good case that the linked article is the accepted usage, I'd be obliged.