[Nix-dev] Packaging free software that costs money

[Roger Qiu]

I'm interested. Free and proprietary software should be installed in the
same way in my opinion.
On 07/07/2016 12:27 AM, "Moritz Bartl" <moritz at unkonstruktiv.de> wrote:

> On 07/06/2016 03:32 PM, Profpatsch wrote:
> > On 16-07-06 10:16pm, Roger Qiu wrote:
> >> I've been thinking about the mechanics of FOSS app stores. If you don't
> want
> >> to handle the payments, you need to implement a kind of
> >> payment-authentication, where the principle is the same as dealing with
> >> private packages. Instead the key being used is a key that is derived
> from a
> >> successful payment.
> > A friend of mine might be onto something there, but it’s probably
> > still too early to tell.
>
> The short story is that we've been working on setting up a hybrid
> company that can "host" open source projects. Hybrid, in the sense that
> it will be able to both process donations (charitable, non-profit), as
> well as sales (commercial). The idea is to eventually scale to thousands
> of little projects, but at the beginning we're focusing on some bigger
> eggs. The idea is that you run your project, and we provide services to
> handle financial issues, with a web interface for teams. Donor and
> grants management, payroll, reimbursement, etc. Much like Software
> Freedom Conservancy but built for larger scale, and based in Europe.
>
> If this sounds interesting, we have some preliminary documentation
> online which I'm happy to share a link to off-list. Please do not
> publicly spread it just yet on mailing lists or Twitter or the like, but
> it's fine to pass along to other interested individuals.
>
> Moritz
>
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