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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jun-2018 12:40:09 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @baldur I agree with that criticism, but I think that just because we have a well established capitalist route for proprietary software, that's not the only route to funding community oriented FOSS. I currently donate monthly to several FOSS projects and feel like I get my money's worth out of it.

   But I do think that there are projects that need funding and aren't getting it. I've thought about establishing a "FOSS R&D lab" as a path forward.

   1. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jun-2018 01:51:17 EDT Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

      in reply to

      @cwebber

      I really like the idea of a "Free Software R&D lab" and would be interested in joining the efforts.

      As of general funding of Free Software, I think donations can be a nice add-on for non-profits or a R&D lab but beside that I think it is important to develop real self containing business models for Free Software.

      Cc @baldur