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The solution is simple: for a monthly payment of $1 per gigabyte the downloads are stable. Otherwise they are not.


Who should pay for this? The developer of the project might not care about the stability, but the maintainers of the various Linux distros might. Should the developer pay from their own pocket to make the Linux folks happy? Should there be some pool of all the Linux distros to collect the fees and pay for these projects?




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