You’re right. That note took me 2 minutes of thinking to write. There’s a lot of nuance in how you would go about implementing something like this but would a company, for example, pay 10 Sats per install of a module they can’t get anywhere else that’s super useful to their product development and also potentially write off that money as donating to open source? I think yes.
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i think it could work if the cost is low enough that it works out to no more than longer term (eg i pay ~$100/y for intelliJ IDE, i just paid for Zorin OS Pro also because they were the only distro that was supporting new AMD video cards, i think i'd be happy to throw at least $150/year at keeping my core systems and tools in shape, hell, i'd pay to see Go maintained if it weren't already making so much money for google
Why if you can cache it? You can already buy packages and many companies do so just by simply buying the licenses to them or getting access to the private registry. Feels like unnecessarily complex solution to the already solved problem. It’s not like companies will have an LN wallet accessible to all the deployment systems and CI/CD pipelines that can be ran anywhere in the world and on any server. Risk with no benefit and high maintenance costs is what I see here 🐶🐾🫡