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I wish they had a revenue goal to release openly, that way spending money in them would contribute to better open models in the long run.

This is how I view that the public can fund and eventually get free stuff, just like properly organized private highways end up with the state/society owning a new highway after the private entity that built it got the profits they required to make the project possible.

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There are a lot of options for doing things this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system




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