Open source products will go out of business if they start to offer membership subscriptions. A very important reason is that it goes against human nature and business logic. Human nature is to like better and cheaper services, and today's Internet users are used to using free products. Users are only willing to pay for those unique products. For example, Netflix subscriptions, if the copyright of movies is free for everyone to watch, the movie production company will definitely go out of business. On the other hand, if subscriptions are paid for open source applications, users can immediately find new free alternatives. The migration cost of Lightning Wallet and Nostr is very low. There are very few subscribers who can really pay for a long time. This is why the subscription service of open source products goes against human nature and business logic.
As far as Bitcoin is concerned, closed source does not mean KYC. If a closed source profitable company can enable more people to use Bitcoin, it is more valuable than only a few nerds can use Bitcoin. WOS and STRIKE have played a very important role in promoting the use of Bitcoin. Only when more people use Bitcoin will there be a greater demand for non-KYC in the future. The Bitcoin ecosystem will be better.
Movies are free on torrent, yet people choose to pay for them not for any legal or altruistic reasons, but because it's convenient and has the most marketing. People want brands and they pay for them.
You can watch the latest dramas and movies as quickly as possible, and you pay for convenience. It provides a unique experience. Just like we can find all kinds of free music on the Internet, but it takes time. A music subscription membership allows me to enjoy music very conveniently.
Now most of the open source clients on Nostr are paid for all users' subscription fees by jack through opensats. Open source to C lacks a positive incentive mechanism. If jack stops funding that day, most of the clients will go bankrupt.
We should just support products we use more, v4v in a more anonymous way to avoid the kyc nonsense they'd need to do for paid subscriptions. Zap your devs!
The cruel reality is that the amount of money Zap provides can only buy a hamburger meal for developers, and cannot support developers' continued development. Only Jack's donation can provide the developers with salary guarantee for continued development.
The plebs need to step up.
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