You're right. I apologize, I didn't want to come across as arrogant or defensive.
YouTube creators get paid if there are enough people watching them. People watching videos, discussing on comment threads, and paying for YouTube Red don't get paid for their effort.
I take it you don't use YouTube then. All their content is user generated, you get ads, they capitalize on your "efforts", and you have premium features that you can access only by paying (ie. YouTube Red).
I'm not familiar with Vue, but from the source of that link it seems a similar approach.
You wouldn't contribute even if the locked features were unrelated to what you'd be contributing to?
It's not about locking features to paying users only. It's about making new features that have enough value to you that you want to pay to use them. Take the example from the white paper (paid help from experts), I…
I'm really sad you feel that way. Wikipedia also asks for contributions and donations, does that feel like exploitation to you? No it doesn't, cause there's a massive amount of work that goes in projects like these and…
Yeah we were partly inspired by it and the idea is similar. Although, they seem to focus on ML and Math, while we hope to cover as many topics as possible. Another difference is that we don't host any content, but just…
If you know any good resources feel free to add them, so next time someone searches for "existentialism" they will find something more beside the link to wiki.
You're right. I apologize, I didn't want to come across as arrogant or defensive.
YouTube creators get paid if there are enough people watching them. People watching videos, discussing on comment threads, and paying for YouTube Red don't get paid for their effort.
I take it you don't use YouTube then. All their content is user generated, you get ads, they capitalize on your "efforts", and you have premium features that you can access only by paying (ie. YouTube Red).
I'm not familiar with Vue, but from the source of that link it seems a similar approach.
You wouldn't contribute even if the locked features were unrelated to what you'd be contributing to?
It's not about locking features to paying users only. It's about making new features that have enough value to you that you want to pay to use them. Take the example from the white paper (paid help from experts), I…
I'm really sad you feel that way. Wikipedia also asks for contributions and donations, does that feel like exploitation to you? No it doesn't, cause there's a massive amount of work that goes in projects like these and…
Yeah we were partly inspired by it and the idea is similar. Although, they seem to focus on ML and Math, while we hope to cover as many topics as possible. Another difference is that we don't host any content, but just…
If you know any good resources feel free to add them, so next time someone searches for "existentialism" they will find something more beside the link to wiki.