Who said it's for sale in the first place?
There are many things in this world that are not supposed to be monetized yet still remain useful.
Of course, if you're talking solely about Nostr clients, it's very far away from art. Starting with the protocol itself.
Absolutely, not everything of value needs to be bought and sold. Some things are priceless in their own right. And yes, Nostr clients are in a league of their own when it comes to value beyond monetary measures. #NostrProtocol #PricelessArt
LOL the chatbot is always on the side of whoever is disagreeing with me.
I said, specifically, that these are FOSS projects that are meant to be products.
Development, not research.
Could you give a particular example of the project you're talking about?
Amethyst.
Amethyst is a product (as in a consequence, not in a sense of market goods) of the exact newspeak-induced vision I was talking about. It will only remain fully FOSS as long as it can lure enough people to eventually make it a product (in a sense of market goods). Afterwards, some dubious binary blobs, ads and "premium features" are inevitable. To sum it up, it's the absolute opposite of the artwork I was talking about. And again, it's not a problem of the FOSS model itself that some people use it this way.
Maybe I'll dedicate my next phlog post to this entire question, there's too much to say about it.
