| One issue I have: are installed packages really the only criterium? I was dreaming about a system where the OS and runtimes automatically track what is used and how often / for how much CPU cycles maybe? And then everybody could dedicate a certain budget for example each month, which then would automatically distributed amongst all apps, packages and linked libraries, from the kernel functions at the bottom, through whichever libc‘s etc are used, up the packages layer, Webservers and/or gui stack etc. But of course that’d still leave lots of open questions: a) people could try to habe the system by using up more resources than needed for example. b) what’s the „value“ of a piece of code run? Who decides what is how valuable?! Maybe someone implemented something really clever, really important, but it doesn’t actually use a lot of resources… other glue code could run a lot but not be especially Hard to implement. So I think this one is a tough one to do correctly, but Id like to see something in this direction getting traction. I think the major issue is gonna be to get real inertia going & get people to allocate appropriate funds. This reminds me of the brave browser and distributing funds along the news sources you actually consume. I really think this could be amazing, even for society as a whole, with people finally being paid for good work they are putting in and not only the ones who are good at marketing & triggering the masses. But it seems to be a real hard problem to solve in a good way. |