@ajroach42 Yeah, I know it's not as simple as that. But we can at least take steps right?

@kelbot Oh I didn't mean "it's not as simple as that" so much as I meant "lets talk about how we can make this happen.

@ajroach42 @kelbot Very relatable. I just want to write useful user facing software for Linux.

@savanni @ajroach42 @kelbot @dbb @vanderZwan @chonky @netopwibby

May I just interject at this point -- https://wooz.dev/Software_Uprising

cc: @jakimfett

@woozle @savanni @ajroach42 @kelbot @dbb @chonky @netopwibby @jakimfett

Nice!

IIRC @nasser started one last year (a coop of programmers), I think he wrote about his experiences but I'm not sure where.

I’m very interested in such a thing, I’d love to contribute however I can.

@vanderZwan @woozle @savanni @ajroach42 @kelbot @chonky @netopwibby @jakimfett @nasser

@dbb @vanderZwan @savanni @ajroach42 @kelbot @chonky @netopwibby @jakimfett @nasser

I think the main/first obstacle to overcome is how to... change the culture, to normalize the idea of people with surplus income contributing a good chunk of their surplus towards one or more public-good cooperatives of this sort. ...like a voluntary income tax. (The free-marketists should be happy, at least, right? ...no, they will never be happy.)

@woozle @dbb @vanderZwan @savanni @kelbot @chonky @netopwibby @jakimfett @nasser

I'm not sure that's where I'd start, but I'm not at a keyboard to respond in more depth.

@ajroach42 @dbb @vanderZwan @savanni @kelbot @chonky @netopwibby @jakimfett @nasser

I'm definitely open to other strategies.

@woozle good link with software_uprising idea, I'll propagate this.
we got a thing next weekend called http://p2p-basel.org/ for distributed non-shitcoin app developers, take a look. google and apple won't allow our apps to be published which makes this even more challenging