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I don't see the point of funding the ONE area in software development where you can still make money, namely web companies. OSS for me is associated with thank
by 01983091091 10y ago
I don't see the point of funding the ONE area in software development where you can still make money, namely web companies.
OSS for me is associated with thankless things like xterm, non-prestigious kernel drivers, Python modules etc.
Are you going to fund such things? Really, to be more clear: If websites are also socialized, soon no one will be able to earn an income from programming at all.
- pudo 10y agoWhere does it say this is about websites? Or that it is against building (web) companies ? (Quite the opposite, actually!) I neither buy your point that 1.2mn R&D money will replace the dot-com economy with socialism, nor that there's no money in infra. Also, how come you think every place on the web should be for-profit? It's a bit like saying every city needs to turn all its parks and community centers into shopping malls so as not to undermine Starbucks right for revenue.
- 02190191 10y agoThe whole setup of this foundation is very website centric. The description of the candidates for funding is Internet centric. The emphasis is on "new projects". I can already tell you how it will go: People who are good at grant writing, have no shame in over-promising and throw around the right buzzwords will get the "R&D" money. After 6 months you'll have half-finished, bug ridden implementations that are bad copies of existing software, and the projects will be abandoned.
- flapperleenie 10y agoI doubt it. So long as you have experts in the jury – as is the case with the prototype fund – you'll decrease the chances of BS proposals getting funded.