"provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out)."
So does a subscription or purchase. So not sure what you are trying to imply with this.
He gives access to stuff if you pay him money, with a promise of more stuff in the future. This just sounds like an subscription to me.
While I do agree there is a disconnect between open source dev payment and business, I don't think mislabeling a subscription as a donation does anyone any good.
we can argue about semantics but it's not really productive, imo.
He implies nothing, he states that sponsor definition covers the OP use case. Having more than one word to describe the same thing is not surprising.
You imply that your definition of sponsor exclude OP use case and there is mislabeling.
The interesting point is the revenue issue in open-source business. This guy solved it for him and present for all how he did it, with no lies and no hypocrisy.
That someone got hung up on a correct word usage shed an interesting light on where this disconnect between open source dev payment and money really lies.
From the outside it's a genuine question but from our side it feels like you ran into our car dealership wanting a car but knowing/telling nothing else.
So let me ask you some questions to see what kind of car fits best.
What do you want to learn?
Why do you want to learn it?
If you would be so kind as to answer those questions me or someone else will most likely be able to help.
You can't build something that can compete with Google without some very very deep pockets and lot's of data.
Same problem with niche search engines, unless they have some unique features/properties that Google doesn't have you are plainly better off with Google.
Google has a Monopoly on search, which looking at the market will hold up for the foreseeable future.
So unless you can offer a specific feature(set) for a niche or you just want to build it for the hell of it I wouldn't reccomend anyone to go into search engines.
I would probably go with what duckduckgo does but offer unique features that are usefull for one or more niches.
Me sending:
I have an owncloud server where I can release an file for a set amount of time with an password if it needs to be somewhat secure. It's not the most secure but I can just send them the link.
Me recieving:
Generally an usb stick.
Though to be honest this doesn't happen to me often so I might act different if that were the case.
Do you run your owncloud server on your own hardware or in the cloud?
Also I assume you use it pretty extensively so the files you are sharing would likely already be there / not have to be uploaded first?
On your own hardware with TLS and a decent password seems like a decent effort to me - better than just attaching things to an email :-) Exchanging the password might be tricky though...
Kind of a broad question so I'll try to answer it with stuff I would like to know.
Arch + I3-gaps. (yes just like the running joke, also my dot files are heavily based on https://larbs.xyz)
I use these IDE'S: Eclipse, Atom, VScode and (neo)vim.
Then I have these eco systems:
- Luarocks
- npm
- composer
- LLVM
- android studio
I use this laptop/mobile workstation for both work and at home so it's all over the place.
I boot my laptop -> log in on tty1 -> keyring unlocks for session -> I3 launches(with video from the Nvidia card via passthrough) -> default stuff launches (firefox, thunderbird and terminal(tmux)) in their workspaces.
When reading the title (which for some reason is cut off thus saying: "Microsoft admitted to private Linux developer security li") I thought Microsoft was up to it's old antics again.
Somehow I am dissatisfied that it isn't. I guess Microsoft is now one of the "good guys" since they don't focus on consumer market anymore.
So does a subscription or purchase. So not sure what you are trying to imply with this.
He gives access to stuff if you pay him money, with a promise of more stuff in the future. This just sounds like an subscription to me.
While I do agree there is a disconnect between open source dev payment and business, I don't think mislabeling a subscription as a donation does anyone any good.