Voluntary contribution instead of prepayment

How much is a copy?

Let's think about how much an electronic copy costs? The correct answer: the cost of the electronic copy is zero, or at least tends to this value. So why everywhere and everywhere, disrupting the natural course of events, we are forbidden to share copies with each other, and instead are forced to pay, pay and pay?

Why?

It's simple. Technologies are developing very quickly, and nobody knows what to do with them, so we went down the beaten paths: patents, payment for each copy, copy protection. But the information is non-material, and those rules that apply to material objects do not work here. Despite this, laws are not passed by scientists and specialists, but by politicians. That is why today publishers wage war on their own consumers and look for “lost profits” everywhere.

It should be?

- First, the author does not need a publisher, because there is the Internet, and everything can be delivered to the “client” directly, without intermediaries.
- The question of advertising remains controversial, but a good product, distributed freely, has every chance of gaining popularity.
- And finally, payment is the most difficult question, it is the main topic of this manifesto, and we can change everything.

Manifest “Donation instead of prepayment”

If you have the opportunity to replace a commercial product with a free one - do it.
If you use a free product - make a donation.
If you use a free service - make a donation.
If you use any service for a long time or a product that is constantly evolving, set up automatic money disbursement, for example, monthly.
If you are not able to make a big donation, make a small one.
If you do not know how to make a donation, try to find someone who knows and ask for help.
Tell others about the great free product or free service you use.
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Notes and recommendations for authors

- The more information about the project is open, the more activity, the better the feedback, the more confidence there will be in the project.
- The easier it is to make a donation, the greater the chance of receiving it.
- The recommended amount of donations will be a plus.
- The main thing: the number of downloads will never be equal or even close to the number of donations, but still, even those who are not ready to pay will distribute information about the product, if it is good, and this will be the best advertisement.

Note

This text is the first step to the “Donation instead of prepay” motivating movement, the idea of ​​which was born several years ago. The text can be freely distributed under the CC BY-SA license .

Need your help

Friends, those who share the above ideas and feel the strength to help - please join. At this stage, we need:
- edits, additions and ideas related to the text
- the domain name in the org zone (dip.org from “donate instead of prepay” is already skieber, there is dip.net, but still the .org zone seems to me more suitable)
- logo
- translations (for starters: English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Chinese)
Your contribution (logo, translations, etc.) will be included in the manifesto under the license CC BY-SA (which means - with the possibility of free use with the obligatory indication of the authors).

UPDATE







UPDATE2

Thank you for supporting those who support it - it is encouraging. Thanks for the criticism and doubts for the rest - it makes you not relax. Those who are ready to join and help - we continue to write (in a personal and by email).

UPDATE3

At the time there is no website, the updated information will be here: plus.google.com/u/0/b/114777325715032379086/114777325715032379086