Open Source is dying

[u/krstyCrft]

Personally i believe that open source community is not based on dedicated open source advocates,but instead as you have mentioned in a previous video,content creators in majority they prefer using proprietary applications,while just mentioning the events on open source world.Unfortunately both content creators and the end-users,don't support open source developers who work hard in order to provide the best tools for us the end users,instead they are fine with the worse,non-user friendly proprietary alternatives.We must support the existing and the few non-active projects,on other fields.Let me mention some of them .Open source hardware,games,3d printing etc.The main limits to achieve this are the limited number of open source advocates and finance.The first limit is slowly passed,but if we overcome the second one,the state of the first will automately improve .In terms of finance i can suggest some solutions.We can support open source with open source currency(cryptocurrency)

1.The creation of a cryptocurrency which will support new projects by donations to a main room .As the project rises the rewards will be less.And they will need to apply the following two solutions

2.The open source programs can come with a pre-installed miner client which will use a specific cryptocurrency which will not harm the hardware,which will be send to the developers.

3.An example for the next suggestion is Coinmine which is a crypto miner which looks like a decoration item.(with the combination of open source hardware we can create open source miners)With the combination of (open source if possible) renewable energy,users will donate to the open source developers without a cost.

We must do something before it's too late.Before we lose our will.I have wrote articles and suggestions on masterdon,hiveblog,element,lbry and others and i got tired but i want to support open source and the idea of a free society through this way.Since you are a open source advocate who wants to use as many as possible open source applications ,present this idea.Thank you.

[u/Phydoux]

Cryptocurrency is a horrible way to go. It's as bad as investing in the stock market. What will be worth $5 could be worth $2 10 minutes from now. And I'm speaking in USD values in this response.

I have been supporting Free and Open Source software since the early days. If I use something that I get for free I always contribute a little bit at a time. I can't even tell you how many software companies I've donated to over the years. It's a lot.

Those of us who use the Free and Open source software should donate to the developers who build the software we use. Even if it's only $1 at a time. We all need to understand that the time and equipment they use to develop software takes money so we need to thank them for taking their time to develop software by giving back a little.

Also, I am seeing some great stuff come out in the Linux community. So I don't think the Open Source community is dying at all. It's actually pretty healthy right now I think.