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Brian 1 year ago
She's says "a percent" twice does that mean 1% ? Infinitely better than before
Are marketers and technical writers part of this ecosystem? I mean these are the people who are going to distribute the developers' products to normal humans.
Cathie has always been a supporter of innovation .. now she is a perpetual investor in hope ! #hatsOff #bitcoin #nostr
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ARK TO DONATE A FIXED PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE TO OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS IN PERPETUITY.
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Jimmy 1 year ago
More companies need to support open source, both financially and direct work by their own developers. Kudos to ARK, well done 👏
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ARK TO DONATE A FIXED PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE TO OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS IN PERPETUITY.
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Thanks for finding this page for me, will go through it and try to apply, I want to build one open source media brand about bitcoin and it's use cases on big level. Thanks again @ODELL
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Trickywoo 1 year ago
Putting your money where you mouth is. From this time, I believe in her intentions.
Pretty cool. Makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. I think it's important that we all keep supporting at an individual level so developers have income to fall back on if these companies start getting too pushy. A 'Fuck You' fund could be in order so developers can apply for funding if they ever find themselves in such a scenario.
I wonder if reviewers who bring people to use Free Software are also eligible.
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Gregor 1 year ago
Giving an income percentage to finance public goods, sounds familiar. Open source work, actual public good.
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Gregor 1 year ago
Borderless public good too.
Honest question - why is this good? Why would donations to open source avoid the problems that donations in any other context deal with?
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dangershony 1 year ago
donations are not the answer, we need proper investment platforms like geyser or angor in to the ecosystem.
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Barkskin 1 year ago
Sounds good. Support devs for their work and help legally against the fiat bully . Happy to see some with deep pockets do so. 🙏
Ark needs to fix a WHOLE lot before they DONATE … ANYTHING
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notesbydon 1 year ago
So, I just zapped my last couple of Satoshi's to this post because: this is what it is all about. I felt the emotion, I felt the fight for freedom, the fight for fairness. I think fairness is the perfect word. It is not about someone being rich or not, it is about having the opportunities to be able to GET rich if you want to. And that is exactly what you guys and girls are fighting for. Cathie, Odell, Jack (sorry if I don't know the others yet). This is crazy. I am witnessing the greatest revolution of all time. It sounds over exaggerating, but most people don't realize that, with the tech of today, there will be no escape to tyranny. Tech is Godly powerful. That's why the people who fight for fairness in this game should be rewarded. With great power comes great responsibility and you folks are doing a great job at handling your power. That's why I zapped my last Satoshi's to this post. I thank you.
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starp 1 year ago
What's the business model though? I'm not convinced there's a sustainable model for FOSS. I think the better approach might be to let everyone get rich trading in the ecosystem and build the systems you want without needing to turn a profit off the code. Solves the conflict of interest and makes the market more positive sum.
I don't understand where their revenues are coming from, given their poor performance.
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dangershony 1 year ago
"let everyone get rich trading" you do realise the contradiction in this sentence? trading doesn't create value it's just money moving hands, when you sell someone buys from you. I agree it's harder to find business models in FOSS, but not impossible.
Thanks. I didn’t see this particular one, but I know of Mostro and RoboSats. I also know of a few efforts to try to standardize order formats on top of Nostr. I guess n3xB is one of them. Main difference I see is n3xB wants to establish a neutral protocol that uses nostr as the primary database. Where-as most other efforts are existing P2P trading solutions trying to have some level of inter-compatibility with each other, and using Nostr as a cache or backup to their central trade coordinators. I see it as trying to make Mastodon work with Blue Sky, instead of creating Nostr. Still hoping for a Nostr like, common neutral protocol first approach to P2P solutions, along with a intercompatible layered approach. I took the first stab at it by creating a defined spec and a base library implementation. Will see if the developer community think this is a worthwhile approach vs the likes of Mostro/RoboSats etc that already exists
He owns it, a system with an owner isn’t free and open. Even if the code is open source, who makes the call on what updates happen. It’s not a universal good, it’s a crap website. Bit like MySpace but with no HTML sparkles. Out of curiosity, why are you so into X?