Open-source development monetization

[PatchRanger]

In short: this PR proposes a way to monetize open-source development of your project. The idea is similar to how free-to-play works in gamedev industry: "You are free to wait for the package download - but in case if time is money for you, please consider buying non-waiting access to the package, every cent goes to the package developer to incentive the open-source development."

For details please refer to https://github.com/Free2Wait/composer-free2wait .

According to packagist statistics of your package https://packagist.org/packages/johnbillion/extended-cpts/stats , in theory it could bring to you about 979 (installs per month) 0.03 (estimated conversion installs-to-sale) 5 (price of each non-waiting access per month) = estimated $146.85 per month.

Please give me your feedback about the idea: what do you think? Are you interested in monetizing open-source development? Do you have any suggestions? Concerns?

Would be glad to receive any feeedback. Thank you for attention.

[johnbillion]

While I appreciate your intent, it's difficult to know where to start with explaining what a terrible idea this is. I've read through the responses from other people in your PRs to other projects and they cover most of what I want to say about this idea.

I'd suggest that you abandon this idea completely and stop spamming projects on GitHub in order to get feedback.

[PatchRanger]

@johnbillion Thank you for response! I appreciate it.

While I appreciate your intent, it's difficult to know where to start with explaining what a terrible idea this is. I've read through the responses from other people in your PRs to other projects and they cover most of what I want to say about this idea.

Though I understand your point, I am not sure that we should judge in "black-or-white" manner.

• The advertisement doesn't ask for your permission to be shown while you're watching TV or internet videos (such as Youtube). It's annoying thing - but it mostly feeds culture, sports and art. Moreover, if we could invent something better than advertisement to solve the same problems it (somehow, well or badly) solves, - we should already switch to it.
• As Winston S. Churchill once said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.".

I am not advocating evil - I am just trying to make this world better from what we have now) Let me accurately log all of the project's negative sides collective mind will see - while in your turn please try to see the potential positive changes it could bring. Together (I believe) we can shape it to the appropriate manner.

I'd suggest that you abandon this idea completely and stop spamming projects on GitHub in order to get feedback.

I'd like to - but the harsh reality requires me to gather statistically reasonable sample of feedback before we could ever make conscious decisions)) Almost everything in this Universe works only at big numbers.

• The conversion of the best e-commerce shops is about 3% - if they would close the sites after the first 20 not paying visitors, we wouldn't have such phenomenon as e-commerce at all)
• 10,000 hours of practice is required to get the difference in any kind of activity.

I am sorry, John, but I am going to continue) I've already done 20 out of planned 100 - and I am going to finish the sample before making decisions. Please keep in mind that I am doing it in the most "ecological" and humanistic manner I could imagine: I've searched Github for "PHP" (https://github.com/search?l=PHP&o=desc&p=98&q=php&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=✓), sorted by "Most stars" - and started from the end in order to bother the least number of people possible.