V Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé napsal(a): > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 10:18:50PM -0000, Ryan Bach via devel wrote: > > It would be nice for Redhat to monetize the Desktop. What do you guys think? > > IMHO talking about Red Hat needing to monetize the desktop is missing > the point of this. There are 1000's of OSS projects that will never be > interesting to big the Linux vendors like Red Hat, SUSE, etc, and yet > the people working on those projects still have bills to pay. > > The proposals wrt donations / payments in Flathub would support the > long tail of OSS projects, by providing another place to potentially > collect some funds directly from users, without having a commercial > Linux vendor in the middle picking & choosing who to give funding to > while skimming off the top of the funds. > That's quite naive idea. In real world any middle man who collects and distributes money in order to "sell software" will have to obey to financial, tax, and security regulations. Thus no middle man will do this task without skimming the funds. Commercial entities are better suited for this role than non-profit organisations. It would be another story if the transaction system did not involve money. E.g. delivering payment information from software authors to software users and delivering software in the same direction. However, these nonmonetery systems suffer from various fraud attempts and loss of trust. Commercial middle entities fights against the frauds by requesting personal data and cash deposits. That's another level of regulations which nobody will undergo for "free". Then what left is mediating donations. But that does not need any formal or unified system. Software authors can siply keep a notice in README/About with a payment details. -- Petr
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