{"title": "Libre Games and Making Money: Introducing Petitions", "timestamp": 1738211680.0211484, "description": "Most Free / Libre Software projects are maintained either by strong communities, or through some kind of donation system. Libre Games struggle with both aspects. There are community driven games, but those lack vision and coherent style, because different people contribute differently, on different skill levels and with different stylistic choices. And no corporation is benefiting from existence of libre games, therefor no serious donations are ever expected to be coming their way.\r\n\r\nWith the petitions idea, which could also be described as some sort of \"reverse crowd-funding\", I want to try to give Libre Games a chance at sustainability. Which if successful could make Libre Software as a whole more appealing. And perhaps do some good in the world.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. 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And only because of that program (now dead) you can get Battle for Wesnoth on Steam alsongside itch.io and standalone which it in my opinion is a nice success story of a libre game (if the goal it to make it more visible on a mainstream platform)\r\n\r\nI find that petition shows engagement to \"get it/release it/play it\" but not to \"contribute\" and for libre game i think both is best but it's not bad. Matter of fact i think petitions are great.\r\n\r\nAlso a light patronage and/or single time donation can be a solution, there's plenty of solutions. but i would advise one more than other because patronnage + petition can take a project in a chokehold in lack of equilibrium between patrons and engagement sometimes. Such as many great crowdfounding projects in search for their own sustainability even with a low entry bar. \r\n\r\nMaybe it's a deep dive for \"how libre software is funded\" search because that's really interesting, a lot are non profit associations, some are solo devs on Liberapay, some do a fundraise once a year, some are funded through opencollective\r\n\r\nbut either way, no matter the time it takes until you find the best for this project, keep up the great work and a clean path of thoughts!", "username": "cptbichez"}, {"text": "\"Or I could go the other route and implement it using some stupid token or crypto-currency. But in all those cases, people still run proprietary software on their devices in some steps during the transaction.\" - What is proprietary in Monero transactions?\r\n\r\n\"Then there is the legal part in all of that.\" - no, there is not, because the \"state\" is illegal and wants to extort you. There is no society to contribute to with taxes. There are only masters, handlers and slaves. The fact that most of the slaves do not realize what they are changes nothing.\r\n\r\n\"If I make money I need to pay the tax.\" - Have you thought about using Monero and publishing/developing as anon in i2p?", "username": "Anonymous Guest"}, {"text": "c:1\r\n\r\n> What is proprietary in Monero transactions?\r\n\r\n@Anonymous Guest Hypothetically, there is a person that doesn't have any crypto yet, but does have a bank account and a credit card. And wants to contribute to a game of mine. For that person to use something like Stripe ( proprietary JS ) or go use the same credit card on some other proprietary JS to buy Monero, is technically identical. Monero simply adds another step to it. But in the end of the line it doesn't actually provide a solution. In both cases the person needs to run proprietary software of some kind somewhere during the transaction.", "username": "blenderdumbass"}]}, "hashtags": ["Libre", "FreeSoftware", "LibreGames", "Userfreedom", "Money", "Business", "Finance", "Gaming", "Gamedev", "GamingOnLinux", "Gnu", "Linux", "SteamDeck", "Petition"], "not_ai_proof": "https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/vAwBtW3NGhxayMMmCVMEhb", "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/libre_games_and_making_money:_introducing_petitions"}