A FOSS app for digital payments, must have a company front to sign deals with country retail store chains. Although customer kyc can be avoided, the payments from the front company to retail chains would be thru a corporate structure.

… maybe convenience is the wrong path

The advantages of PoW crypto, over digital (and PoS), it’s possible to force between seller and buyer:

• communication with end-to-end encryption
• privacy oriented marketplaces

With the goal of fostering our own private communities. Over time, might spawn a sub-culture, identity, and ultimately people hood.

I hope this is sarcasm

Currently trying to improve a popular Sphinx extension, sphobjinv. Can watch my daily pain here

If anyone is so inclined, please throw some litecoin my way

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The litecoin will go towards my daily milk tea habit. Elephants work for peanuts, i work for milk tea.

aGPLv3 is a good business model. If companies are using your kit in their closed source projects, they need to pay you

donationware is abandonware. We brand it Apache2.0 or MIT

Not triggered by this emotional outrage bait

it either costs your time or money or both. There is no situation where anything is free.

I’m currently fixing, not mine, repos. I have the skill level to fix other coders design issues. One at a time.

This is costing me time. Not just in doing the work, but all the time leading up to gaining the skillset to be at this level.

Put a price tag on that. (i’m not boasting; actually having to do this grind)

AGPLv3 is not anti-business or anti-money. It’s saying if you want to use the code in a closed source project you need to pay the copyright holder

The copyright holder is the original author, not a maintainer or someone who forked a project and renamed it.

That’s why the #1 thing mentioned in copyleft licenses is you can’t alter the copyright notice and declare yourself the original author

AGPLv3 is a good license to choose. All the other licenses are naive and do not combat closed source projects and the slave worker that keeps our projects unfunded

Exactly. They obviously didn’t research licensing enough.

Closed source projects need to pay for licensing. Or they will force you to work for them designing web forms and smartphone apps

Am i wrong?

govts print infinite money. All of us are working for free. Their fiat is credits for the company store.

If you think funding projects is bad then the response is to support lobbying project owners to put in malware until FOSS is publically funded.

All we have to do is verbally support it. And cheerlead when it occurs. We don’t actually have to actively do it. It’s a threat which is done in politics all the time.

Step 1: all software has to be open source

Step 2: governments, required by law, to fund FOSS projects in their tech stacks. Helped by organizations which trace project funding and lobbying to promote FOSS security by providing funding; a huge incentive to not insert malware

Step 3: coders are afforded dignity (UBI); given funds geared towards affording a maintenance team. Regardless of country of origin. Vital infrastructure is vital infrastructure. Talent is talent.

I support this move to Step 1

Where is the list of pauper gov’ts which force talent to get a job rather than be a talent and then maintain their projects with dignity!

Those jobs are mostly nonsense. Geared towards wasting our time building:

• yet another stupid web site

• yet another stupid smartphone app

• yet another stupid cloud base server instance