i hate it but also the KDE "adopt an app" initiative is kinda poggers.
us "extreme leftists" in FOSS might find it cringe but it seems like a good step towards educating the public about FOSS and finding more practical and user-focused ways to fund it.
@cas What would be cringe about it?
@newbyte having to engage in "the system" to get broader appeal to fund foss
@dos @newbyte i don't think engaging on the legal side is that relevant here, particularly since the ideological pull of merely having something like the GPL is absolutely not something that gets people to engage with FOSS in the same way it might have 20 years ago.
people today find FOSS through media and adjacency to topics they care about (gaming, emulators, tools that "just work" when you get sick of scummy paid software), many more people who actively use free software and maybe even run Linux do not give more of a fuck about the GPL than they might about other progress issues.
