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by juliusmusseau
2491 days ago
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Monetizing our work is not strange. It might require some contortions compared to the most direct approach (step 1. write software. step 2. git push), but that doesn't make it a bad thing. Here is Charles Dickens writing about his own contortions to monetize his work: There must be a special design to overcome that specially trying mode of publication, and I cannot better express the difficulty and labour of it than by asking you to turn over any two weekly numbers of "A Tale of Two Cities," or "Great Expectations," [...] Notice how patiently and expressly the [serialized novel] has to be planned for presentation in fragments, and yet for afterwards fusing together as an uninterrupted whole. I think holding onto bugfixes and feature enhancements and letting Patreon subscribers have first dibs on these makes sense. |
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You're answering the question you want to answer, not the one that was asked. It's important that you get paid for your work so you can eat, and it's good to figure out ways to monetize your work. Charging people for reporting bugs is strange because knowing about bugs helps you and the rest of your users more than it helps the reporter.
> I think holding onto bugfixes and feature enhancements and letting Patreon subscribers have first dibs on these makes sense.
I think that could make sense, too, but neither of those things are reporting bugs or suggesting features. I don't have a quote.