cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18457741
I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made the damn game, the artists, the sound designers, the voice actors, the programmers. If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.
Just thinking
What are your ideas on how this could actually be implemented?
Bruce Perens is spearheading an initiative that he is calling Post Open to address issues like the sustainability of open source software development.
https://postopen.org/
the distinction between big and small companies is artificial , a big company can still have a small product with low profit margins, and both big and small companies can be managed by the same mutual funds and pension funds (vanguard , blackrock, fidelity etc).
@wiki_me @vk6flab Yes, I created the DFSG and then made it the OSD. Please read the text at https://perens.com/static/DEVELOPMENT_LICENSE.txt?v=2004_04_01 , specificially the definition of YOU. It sounds like I should add _owners_ to YOU as well as _ownership_.
I recommend that you take that observation to @BrucePerens_K6BP@mastodon.radio himself.