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What is your take on the Sidekiq model? I'm really curious to hear more about that :-) I see a number of people around me currently thinking about putting a "f
by thibaut_barrere 11y ago
What is your take on the Sidekiq model? I'm really curious to hear more about that :-)
I see a number of people around me currently thinking about putting a "fair salary" at the core of their future open-source work. Often it completely changes what the delivered value should ultimately be etc (something I think Mike did think about - I believe).
Do you have thoughts on that approach?
- steveklabnik 11y agoMy thoughts are mostly "I'm glad it's working out for Mike, and I hope others can follow his path." I personally have taken pursued the patron model, but that also is because with Rust, that's the only real way to do it.
- thibaut_barrere 11y agoBy patron model, to clarify, you mean a single large company paying most of the bills and bringing funding, right? (either because they want to promote innovation, or this generates financial gains, etc etc)? I would also think that for a language, this is probably the best model (even if it failed with IronRuby, or if JRuby funding sources moved over time etc). This is a fairly large endeavour, so it makes sense (at least I believe it!).
- steveklabnik 11y agoYes. Though I mean me personally, not the language itself. I wanted to work on Rust full time, Mozilla wanted to hire someone to work on Rust full time, it fits.
- thibaut_barrere 11y agoIt's great that it works for you one on one, sincerely! I hope though that we will see more occurrences of OSS projects where N customers are sending money to directly finance the sustainability of the OSS product, just because it delivers value for them (not a moral obligation or PR etc - note that I'm not stating that Mozilla is doing this!). I feel for libraries & components (unlike languages maybe, as we said), at that specific scale, it can work very well.
- steveklabnik 11y agoI do too.