Many open source projects accept donations. There's also explicitly paid-for software. What exactly do you wish for that you can't do right now?

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ares623 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Specifically the part where engineers get paid the same way as artists on Spotify.

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Loughla 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So a handful will make a buttload but the vast majority won't make enough to pay rent?

	▲	pjc50 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Certainly that's how open source pans out.

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techpression 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So not at all for their work and with a reverse Robin Hood model? That would be terrible for software. The way artists gets paid on streaming is a genius play at catering to the biggest artists and labels and screw over the smaller ones, especially true on Spotify with their freemium model