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[–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah free as in freedom not as in price.

The closest anyone's come to a mechanism that would allow efficient financing of public goods like free software is quadratic funding. Unfortunately, there are unsolved issues with collusion and identity verification