Package: bablos
FAQ (or why would you need to ask this anyway?)Q: Why the version number for the first release is 0.00008?
A: 0.00008 is $0.01 in BTC, the smallest indivisible coin from RL that the most generous users in the World can donate to support [1] this endeavour.Q: Why not $0.1 or $1?
A: The next version will surely be more costly.Q: Wait, which money? The license is Public Domain!
A: Right. Public Domain is the way software lives, money is the way to live for humans. Nobody wants to end like PKWARE founder. This action [2] will save your soul. For a few months anyway. So try recurring stuff [3].Q: Do you mean I have to pay for bablos?
A: No, you don’t. But this is how it works - you pay, and then you’re hooked. Even if this is the first application you ever payed for, once you pay - it’s already installed. You can remove it though.Q: Why are you constantly talking about money? What is this stuff anyway?
A: Well, sometimes live becomes harsh and you need bablos to proceed.Q: I don’t understand.
A: That’s not a question.Q: That’s not an answer.
A: Ok. Bablos is a double entry systemQ: Do you mean double entry accounting?
A: No, I mean I enter text twice - in English and in Russian.Q: And what about Russian?
A: When you join the best of both worlds, you get bablos.Q: I am totally confused.
A: Just believe. “If you believe in bablos, bablos also believes in you”.Q: Is that Nietzsche?
A: It is a religion. Show your [5] and you’ll be saved.Q: What religion? It is a site with Python packages!
A: Religion packed into cute Python package.Q: I am already a follower of another religion.
A: That’s perfectly ok. Bablos is a cooperative religious thing. No matter which religion you follow, bablos helps to keep you up.Q: And what it is about?
A: It is about attaining piece of mind through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable. Here [5].Q: …
A: There is another way.Q: Way to what?
A: To solve the conflict inside you.Q: I don’t have any conflicts.
A: Everybody who says that has one.Q: How do you know?
A: Because I had too, then I did it [6] and send link to 20 friends. Now I am saved.Q: I don’t want to be saved.
A: Everybody wants.Q: Me not.
A: You do.Q: No, I don’t.
A: Any amount counts [7].Q: And where I’ll be saved?
A: In ChangeLog.Q: Where is it?
A: Will be included in the next version.Q: And what is the next version, 0.00009?
A: It directly depends on contributions [8]. It is bablos after all.Q: I see it all about begging money.
A: True.Q: That’s mean.
A: Didn’t you like the experience? I am ruined. Can you please report a bug [11]?Q: Well..
A: It helps software.Q: You mean religions.
A: No, I mean public domain software.Q: I prefer GPL.
A: Well, it may help LGPL software.Q: I want to be sure it will help.
A: Guarantees for bablos are planned for version 2.0 and above.Q: Hey! That’s $245.8 And you said Open Source and Public Domain!
A: I see you’re starting to get it. Bablos is OS, PD and about investments. Start investing now to become master [9].Q: But what I am investing into?
A: It is not a fraud. That alone should be enough. There is more. There is no promises, so everything is honest.Q: But you promised to save me in the ChangeLog.
A: That’s planned.Q: But you said no promises.
A: No bablos - no promises. Catch-22. It can be helped though [11].Q: You are cheating.
A: There is only way to check [12]. Any amount will do.Q: No, I am not paying for software.
A: It is not for software. Software is in public domain.Q: But there is nothing!
A: There is already a future investor and a teacher. You first lesson [13].Q: What do I learn from it?
A: You will learn trust (level 1) and you will also test how bablos works (unlocked achievement).Q: Achievements are sweet.
A: That’s planned. 1.0 may include that.Q: Still I am not convinced.
A: Remember last time you’ve invested into honest business. Now it’s your chance [10].Q: I better buy some indie bundle and help charity.
A: With bablos you can buy indie bundle, help charity and invest in the future [14].Q: Into your future?
A: Into Open Source future.Q: How come?
A: You know, bablos can fund Python sprints.Q: Didn’t even think about it. Anything else?
A: Bablos can help homeless.Q: Ha-ha. Windows users have HOME directory.
A: It is not funny. I am homeless.Q: Maybe I am too.
A: You can help me.Q: Why should I.
A: Because you want to master bablos. It is a fair deal.Q: I don’t need bablos.
A: Say it in Russian.Q: And what will happen?
A: You become homeless.Q: Is it a threat?
A: No, it is how bablos work. To own a home, you need bablos.Q: I see. Now here are your high ideals, religions, open source?
A: Everything is included, and that’s already in 0.00008…Bablos for “Bubble OS” economic model.
Achievents loop.
Split between projects.
Have a limit per feature.
Bablos over limit pumps to upper streams of supported projects.