I never go anywhere near Chrome if I can possibly help it. Manifest v3 nonsense just reaffirms that position.

Actually, both of those are indicative of educational attainment, social philosophy, probably political leaning….

Don’t confuse Lemmy upvotes with Reddit agreement or Facebook likes. As often as not, upvotes here just mean “You gotta see this!”

Now I get it. OP wants to turn FOSS into a Ponzie scheme: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/comment/768869

On the contrary, friend, I’m simply trying to help you see that you’re reinventing the wheel. Literally everything that you’ve said you want in a software license already exists. Bill Gates already did it. It’s called proprietary software. Develop it and license it to whoever wants to use it.

It actually sounds like you want to open a software development studio or a consortium of independent contractors. It’s a great idea. Run with it.

If you don’t like people accepting what you freely offer, then don’t offer it. If you want to be paid, sell your work. It’s extraordinarily simple.

Obviously. With this much “I/me/my” in their rhetoric, it’s clear that they’re thinking about everyone else.

i dont want you to make money off of my invention without giving back

Why do you think that you’re interested in writing FOSS software? Nothing you’ve posted here supports that claim. You do, however, speak like a textbook entrepreneur who wants to be paid for their innovation.

If you want to sell proprietary software, why not just write and sell it? Or as others have suggested, dual license it? Hell, even the old shareware model could work for what you’ve described.

Unless you’re paying enforcers, how would you know if a corporation paid the right amount to use the code? How would your union determine distribution amounts to projects? How far upstream would payments go? How will disputes among developers be resolved?

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It’s probably more a failure of strategy than of logic. People whose PSY 101 class ignored behaviorism and tactics for shaping behavior would be prone to these sorts of mistakes.

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A lot of them do, yes.

Definitely an initialism.

In a lot of the US, w is pronounced as two syllables in conversational speech: dub-yuh

The Document Foundation’s LibreOffice forums are very helpful for questions like this.

Agreed. I keep trying to use it because that’s where Opensim’s Metaverse Alliance landed when Google Groups shut down, but it’s way too noisy. I wish they’d just settled on a proper forum site like Delphi.

Nice try, comrade.

Do downvotes actually impact visibility on Lemmy?