If you can't easily monetize creativity, you'll end up with less people being creative because they'll be busy with a day job.
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that's why we have lightning network - this enables legit micropayments to monetise work directly
i pay for my relays and media hosting this way and i'd pay this way for a really polished OS as well this way, sadly this OS (zorin) has a pay option but not bitcoin or LN, which is partly why i have decided not to, and the value add isn't interesting to me
but i pay for my intellij IDEA and it's great, and they are very interactive in the support system, gave me a reasonable workaround for an issue i was having with titlebars
Well, being paid for creating issues and then heroically solving them is a part of a lot of modern business model.
oh, the CSD thing is an epic pain in the arse on linux in general, and the workaround costs me about 30 vertical pixels in exchange for the window titlebar responding to the mutter click events (i have middle click lower, so this makes it one click to switch between two maximised windows)
but yes, they call them features but most of the time they are bugs for a long time
If you do need something as bloated as IDEA, then something is wrong from the start.
But that's not the point. The point is: "create a virus and then make users pay for the antivirus" business model always has worked on those who can't see any other option.
the problem is due to the dumbasses out there in the world who think that a million languages in one project is not a problem
i was happy with goland before, and it has a core feature that i use all the time - an actually working symbol hyperlinking database - and yes, it is brittle, i often need to force it to regenerate, but there is no other way for me to be able to quickly go from a usage to the definition than in intellij, nobody else has done the work to make it as reliable, vscode is a joke, and it does so many things in the background with zero notice, intellij only does a few odd things that it doesn't show me that it's working, and yes they are annoying as piss
and yes, not just open the source, but make the interface expose the workings to those who are interested... that's why i log religiously