On: Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple...

[Ecco]

I understand why the developer would like to get a recurring form of revenue, but as a consumer buying a subscription makes no sense at all!

The goods obtained (Linux on MabBookAirX,Y) are very much non-recurring by nature...

[zethraeus → Ecco]

This is the newly-normal software subscription package or a stipend to bootstrap a project. Both feel pretty normal!

Even if it is the former, updates & improvements take work. And they seem likely to be necessary here.

[someperson → zethraeus]

The deliverables of any software project is obviously incremental in nature (EG, Initial boot with software graphics, 2D graphics, power saving features, 3D graphics etc), so the funding model makes sense