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You're entirely correct here. These OSS creators have leverage but are either unaware or unwilling to take advantage of their advantageous position.
by josephagoss 10y ago
You're entirely correct here. These OSS creators have leverage but are either unaware or unwilling to take advantage of their advantageous position.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoIs there no middle ground between OSS maintainers/contributors going hungry and them holding businesses hostage for ransom?
- josephagoss 10y agoTo be honest I hope there is middle ground, I just cannot see it. I want OSSc creators to be well compensated. These people are providing the world with an incredible service.
- trome 10y agoEntire businesses like Red Hat & Suse are built on the middle ground. There is room in the market for OSS creators to be compensated for their work.
- anigbrowl 10y agoTrue, but not everyone wants to be part of a business. What if there were some umbrella nonprofit that collected funds for open source development and redistributed to various projects in approximate proportion to their deployment in production, as well as seed or micro-capital to encourage new contributions?
- tavert 10y agoYou mean like http://www.numfocus.org http://www.numfocus.org ? That's not quite how their fiscal sponsorship agreements work, but close enough.
- anigbrowl 10y agoDid not know about this. Thanks for sharing, this is very encouraging to see.
- krylon 10y agoI may have been misunderstanding the whole thing, but wasn't the FSF supposed to kind of do that (among other things, but still)?
- anigbrowl 10y agoI'm not sure, I haven't followed the topic closely enough in recent years to form an opinion.
- beambot 10y agoIndeed, there is: market segmentation.