<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For what it’s worth… I tend to ‘refund' academia’s research luxuries (time/mind space as resource) as a duty to release free software… many do too. I know it is not ideal but at least it brings some cool toys (like Pd ;-)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Nov 2018, at 03:16, Alexandre Torres Porres <<a href="mailto:porres@gmail.com" class="">porres@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">There was recently a bounty for GEM developing, it started picking up, everyone agreed it was a cool idea, I never used GEM in my life and I chipped in 15 US$... the thing is that then there was a discussion on wether to move to a different bounty system and the whole thing kinda died away.<br class=""><br class="">So all I have to say is that I don't think there's an issue for Pd people, and my only issue is that I hope my pennies do not go to waste :) </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">Em dom, 11 de nov de 2018 às 21:10, Julian Brooks <<a href="mailto:jbeezez@gmail.com" class="">jbeezez@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can I ask our community what's the general take on bounties?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've discussed this informally with a couple of people on here (not on-list) and it's a polarising topic.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For me, free/open is doomed unless we accept that current/traditional methods of practise serve as a form of serfdom - or require a hefty dose of institutional/employer support (& often community participation - which is great obvs.).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's not sustainable for free software to carry on reliant on free labour (IMO).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've always liked something that Michel Bauwens (p2p foundation) once said (roughly paraphrased), that copyleft can only be implemented once the revolution is complete, and until then we require to get paid (somewhere along the line).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are enough crappy things out there that are purely extractive, without replicating such political/economic hardships within my own favoured idealised/idealistic communities.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This though, isn't to say I don't get the argument that it's a dangerous line to cross, with projects becoming solely an economic arms race, highly centralised, with reimagined methodologies and rules for participation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's a tricky one. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All input and insight appreciated...<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best to all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Julian<br class=""></div></div>
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