Comment by nottorp
4 hours ago
There's also the problem of who decides who gets paid?
If they pay by popularity most of my $1 would go to javascript. I'd rather it went to libraries I actually use.
4 hours ago
There's also the problem of who decides who gets paid?
If they pay by popularity most of my $1 would go to javascript. I'd rather it went to libraries I actually use.
Even though I like JS/TS, I agree... not to mention that at even 10x the suggested amount for paid accounts, or even $1 per private repo per month, it still wouldn't be significant to any individual developer... More along the lines of thanks for the cup of coffee money as opposed to income money.
As suggested, I do think there should be room for grant funding, especially in the case of govts switching to open-source (LibreOffice, Linux, whatever) and open-source individuals and orgs can apply and granted each year dependent on actual use. Though, even then, govts should probably do more for funding, but I don't want a situation where the org just spends more money than they actually distribute for dev (looking at you Mozilla).
Not sure if github publishes their subscriber numbers but there may be quite a few, at least corporate?
Personally I used to pay 7/month for personal use, then when MS bought it it went down to 4, and one day when my card expired I noticed I'm not using any of the paid features and private repos are now free... so now I'm paying 0.