I hope to live in a future one day, where it's socially acceptable for talented scientists, artists, tinkerers, researchers, developers, people and groups of people whose work scales and benefits many thanks to technology/internet, to be completely funded via the likes of Gittip.
That way, they could fully focus 100% on their craft with the love and passion it deserves, without the drain of fixed-schedule 8 hour workdays. And they could afford to publish their work for free, fully open, without being forced to make it worse by applying DRM and selling on a per-copy basis.
I think we're slowly but surely getting there, and it makes me very happy. Cheers. :)
That way, they could fully focus 100% on their craft with the love and passion it deserves, without the drain of fixed-schedule 8 hour workdays. And they could afford to publish their work for free, fully open, without being forced to make it worse by applying DRM and selling on a per-copy basis.
I think we're slowly but surely getting there, and it makes me very happy. Cheers. :)