Fundraising is skill, and it needs to be learnt, I have looked at a fairly large chunk of open source project that are successfully funded and i think that is what sets them apart.

I think it is important that users should have a very clear understanding of how you are doing, if you need X money to keep doing this, there should be a pop up saying you need X money on the software and it should be very hard to miss on the website and read me.

Will some people not like that? probably but you can't please everyone and you shouldn't let a vocal minority determines how things happen.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At that point, you've become a business. So yeah, you need skill to fundraise.

I think opensource software should always be dual-license. One FOSS for personal use, and an aggressively limited license for commercial use.

Fuck the companies, they will always take and never give anything back. They won't give you money anyways, so might as well shut them down.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if you want to live off your work, then of course you're a business.

Or if you want to get money without all the fundraising hassle, get a salaried job.

Basically you want to work in open source on whatever you want, not have to listen to users, not have to find funds, and still be paid for it?

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

If what you bring has an immense value, like nodejs where pretty much all the internet runs on it, you shouldn't have to scrap by or need fundraising skills.

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