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I’m curious about their plan for paying out developers as well.

I have some vague notions for “community supported software”, where features and implementation priorities are driven by the community and not the enterprise. In order to give the developers a fair share, I was thinking of something similar to kickstarter rounds for feature sets, with a defined group of developers for that round.

I’m sure the practical reality is challenging. For example, that means doing fundraising and marketing regularly. There is also an opportunity cost — this is meant to serve the community, and it’s unlikely anyone will get FAANG level compensation for work on this.

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Also, reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011469 -- such as this article (https://stefan-lesser.com/2020/10/27/how-to-adopt-christophe...) ... I'm getting an inkling that there's something related to Christopher Alexander's ideas on end-user programming that is somehow related to community supported software. That in order to have software designed for community interests and have people involved fairly compensated, it involves end-user programming in some way.