@hakui @iwillbite
>then people aren't going to make stuff based on free software if it means they have to hire someone to do a full code audit every time
Free software was never about costing less. And even in this case it still cost less. And can cost even less if they finance the original author directly.

>and then you wonder why the only ones in the market are proprietary
Because they can hide behind the shadows :hands: ?

>i'm beginning to suspect your definition of a "free market" is rather............unorthodox
My understanding of the free market is easy, to be able to have a free market you cannot forbid someone to forbid.
Which is literally what proprietary software/hardware does directly and indirectly. Want to change code ? fuck you! want to share code ? fuck you! want to execute code ? fuck you! want to read or share data that is legal today but not tomorrow ? fuck you ! want to repair hardware ? fuck you ! want to buy a specific component to repair hardware ? fuck you! etc...

>and for those free software projects that list a minimum cost of manpower,
I agree, and that's what I'm trying to establish if you haven't understood my plan.

>do you pay them that minimum cost in order to gain access to them?
Ten and myself around 3k without tax (2k after tax). For every 204 customer/donators.

>morality is always going to be a minority in the sea of incentives
Until social structure falls apart and people realize how much they love freedom, but that's late and will require 20x times the amount of efforts and suffering needed to go back to stable normality.