leobard<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thisismissem</span></a></span> - good point. what code have you been working on that goes into products I may be using so that I know where to direct my contributions to?</p><p>I appreciate "product and license" thinking, where code is packed and productivized so that consumers can buy. If I see a business model where the payment can be distributed amonst thousands of software/service consumers, I am much more eager to chime in. Maybe others, too.</p><p>Remembering something <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Karlitschek</span></a></span> said about 20 years ago, that sustaining end-user open-source applications is tricky, especially the last 80% work to make it a smooth system (and expanse the user universe beyond devs to anyone).... I like the business models of Wordpress with WooCommerce/Akismet or KirbyCMS where there is a clear flow of money for service. </p><p>I want <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/productize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>productize</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a>, not <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p><p>(Thinking about hosters who could also charge for services and buy your code such as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@fedihost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedihost</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/@digitalcourage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>digitalcourage</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PaulaToThePeople</span></a></span> )<br>(Still in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.ozoned.net/@ozoned" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ozoned</span></a></span> threads)</p>