Remark - Monetary Policy
Article type: Fundamental
Article name: Remark - Monetary Policy
Author: Framez
Description:
I believe that a system should be free and open source, and can still make money in unobtrusive ways. This gives it more resilience than simply waiting for donations.
With Listiary, there are a few ways.
First, admins that host a wiki farm can offer private lists only to paying users or donors.
Then they can offer to host private wikis for paying customers, and, of course, support.
Donors can also receive stickers celebrating their support.
Also, on a more controversial note, there might be a market for paid/freemium pluginlets.
Users that are good Listiarians can be hired to write private lists for people, and the platform might make a small percentage from the person hiring, for providing a reputation-based marketplace for this work.
Lastly, but not least, there is the possibility for paid users on some wikis to lock personally-created unique content for a time, for paid subscribers, like stock market predictions, for example. The key word is for a time window. I imagine anything from one day to one year, after which the data is released under a FOSS license.
Of course, the public wiki should always come first.