Steam, for all its faults, does have systems in place to incentivise quality - public facing aggregated reviews & scores from users, easily accessible tags and genre charts, an "early access" model specifically for partially complete software.
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I also wonder whether github is missing an opportunity to offer paid software licenses (basically, an app store) alongside $0 open source, given that ends up being the pathway to sustainability for many long term FOSS maintainers.
I also think now that Microsoft owns Github there is a perverse incentive in place - as with every massive tech company, MS has made enormous profits off the back of open source work without proper compensation, and it's in their interest for things to stay that way.
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