People who are new to The Prāv Cooperative (npub1eyk…ndu6) may be wondering why they need to give a govt id and 1000 rupees to become a member?
Even long term #FreeSoftware community members might be wonder why do we need to bother with all these?
Don't we just need #vi vs #emacs or #kde vs #gnome vs #sway fights?
Don't we just need to have #Arch vs #Debian vs #Fedora choice?
There are two additional challenges in addition to maintaining software,
1. Run the service reliably - pay bills
2. Break network effects