Why volunteer? Why not find a way to pay someone for the value of their time at market rate and release the product of their labor under a permissive license?
replyFor the last 25+ years I've been hearing folks say: "why not find a way". But then not suggest anything more than that obvious answer.
replyPlease suggest an actual path forward, an actual plan that is more than just "figure it out". And the plan needs to address at least 1/2 of the points I made above.
It's a "Hard Problem". The answer needs lots of time, likely money and at least two humans with strong drive to fix the problem.
We've managed to make the entire corpus of open source software but the thing that's a "Hard Problem" that nobody can find a way to do is making the icons look good?
replyIt's almost like it's not a technical challenge, it's that getting good looking icons would require a unified userbase, and Apple has that but Linux does not.
Linux these days is almost exclusively developed by companies with combined value exceeding Apple's several-fold.
replyFinding money and designers is not really a hard problem.
Yeah what if these open source developers just got jobs and then they paid someone to do what they used to do for free?
replyYeah, it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you find a way to pay people a livable wage for the things you want.
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