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    paying for free software (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Maybe this is a naive view, but I wouldn't mind paying a programmer to improve free software when there's something I need. Then everyone can benefit the same way I benefit from other people improving the software in similar or other ways.
    For example, a while ago I realized that the OpenBSD file(1) tool didn't detect utf-8 encoding, which was something I wanted. It doesn't seem like a priority of the devs, but generally an improvement for everyone if it worked. If there was an easy way to pay a programmer to implement it for a reasonable price I could pay for that. If more people wanted the same thing we could share the cost too. Finally if the devs thought it was a feature in line with the goals of the project it could be merged into the main source code and everyone would benefit.
    I wish this system of hiring programmers was easier to navigate.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    That is a brilliant idea, but make a GitHub issue first so it's a known issue.