Post B7xsLZnZbLOaH45cYq by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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 (DIR) Post #B7xs1x8P83wErFTZZI by ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog
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       @tante I've been thinking about this a lot lately. FSF, OSI, SFC, Linux Foundation... basically every org that has claimed to stand for things that I care about in software has shown themselves to be absolutely undeserving of my trust.Edit: I forgot about the creative commons people
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xs5ijgbZClMLi8Wm by gryphonmyers@mastodon.social
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       @ansuz @tante I'm convinced the problem is money and that we need critical projects to be self-sufficient to avoid the kind of corruption we're seeing now.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xs5j3XPl5ILuzzTE by FinFangFoomed@mastodon.social
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       @gryphonmyers @ansuz @tante or rather than funding the projects, we fund the people. Basic stuff like healthcare and UBI would allow programmers the freedom to work on projects that they were passionate about or they understood to be of importance. How many vital projects go under-maintained because it's not cool or profitable? Funding and supporting the programmers directly would solve a lot of these issues.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xsLZnZbLOaH45cYq by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @FinFangFoomed @gryphonmyers @ansuz @tante yes and no. I could not do anything with direct funding. I need a stable job that brings a known, if not too large, amount of money to the table every month. Direct funding would be sporadic and after a while be tied to requirements, and I couldn’t give up the main job for it.UBI is the way to go here. Then I could "add on" with a job with less hours, and hopefully be more creative in the remaining time. (As it is I’m barely getting a week done due to $factors.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xuHiUfWzL5zXXCm8 by FinFangFoomed@mastodon.social
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       @mirabilos UBI is the direct funding in speaking of, as in money goes to programmers and not companies or individual projects. I don't mean people just sending you money through services like kofi and Patreon.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xuHii8iu7AfJpxlw by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @FinFangFoomed ah ok, that works