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Free in software should stand for freedom, not money. We need better ways for financing such software projects and creators making content on them.
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