@vanepp thanks for your patience, i know sometimes i sound rude but is not my intention, i tend to be frank… and additionally as english is not my native tongue maybe i write in a complicated way
maybe i don’t explain myself enough in some points, i will try to organize my replies
yes they worth, don’t be so sure… sometimes what other people think is different than what we imagine, and it could be important, especially in large groups of people… you can’t guess everyone is thinking or feeling, riots and conspirancies usually starts by making some assumptions by leaders (or plain and simle he don’t care)
i.e. I needed to view a file or draw a simple schematic as amateur, wanted to try the software, found project is open source, go to “donate and download” and thinks “no problem”, but when redirected to paypal I FELT cheated… i am sure there must have more between the thousands of users
that sounds contradictory
i think “hidden” was a bit exaggerated, i think “hard to find” is more accurate… however and according to your response, i was somewhat right saying hidden because as you pointed the latest repo is “hidden” to other than developer collaborators because charges in github… had you tried to consider another alternatives as gitlab, sourceforge or something else? (when i knew github was purchased by microsoft i inmediately switched to gitlab), i think sourceforge supports big files, there must be others too
i think there are also another ways to increase incomes maybe more effective and attractive… for example community editions and supporter editions (business model of mysql or nginx for example)… or by making “gifts” (i.e. download fritzing and get access to videos of devs oil-wrestling each other, get a badge for your profile, an exclusive ringtone for your nokia, see your name with flashing neons on public collaborator list, write in forums with old english font, or whatever cosmetic gift)
