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How many billions or trillions of market value are built upon foundational technology like this, while the maintainers have to go begging for funds not for them
by sonofblah 8y ago
How many billions or trillions of market value are built upon foundational technology like this, while the maintainers have to go begging for funds not for themselves, but for the good of the project(s)?
- ejholmes 8y agoIt’s a pretty unfortunate state of affairs. Google/Microsoft/Amazon should be throwing money at these projects. It’s in their best interest if they use it.
- kakwa_ 8y agoI would love if the following existed: A policy in tech companies to grant a given amount (let say 50$) per month to each employee, the employee can attribute this amount to whichever OSS project(s) he sees fit. If the employee doesn't chose a project, this amount is given to OSS projects in need. To streamline this, the ideal would be to have a service where everything could be done: * OSS projects register to it * Tech Companies then give the money to the service, which then dispatch it to the OSS projects * Employees of tech companies logs into the service to select which projects they chose to give money to (with maybe some suggestion to avoid over/under funding projects).
- saagarjha 8y agoOr pay employees to work in open source?
- majewsky 8y ago> to grant a given amount (let say 50$) per month to each employee Let's make that amount dependent on the employee's salary. Not 50$ per employee per month, but e.g. salary for 1 hour per employee per month. Salaries vary a lot between countries (and even within countries).
- alien_ 8y agoThis is happening all over the industry, pretty much all companies just make use of open source software without giving a penny to the thousands of projects they leverage on a daily basis to make profit or even keep the lights on. As someone who runs a small open source project that clearly states that Patreon donations are accepted and even offers some convenience benefits to donors, I often see people jumping extra hoops to avoid it, including clearly profitable companies that saved many thousands by using my software, spending extra time that would amount to more than those donations. So far I get donations from less than one percent of my estimated users.
- bdhess 8y agoDownloading binaries from the public internet and executing them on corporate machines is likely prohibited at all three of those companies.
- collingreene 8y agoThis exists, https://internetbugbounty.org/ https://internetbugbounty.org/ Facebook, microsoft, github, etc all pay $$ and our time into a pool that is used to incentivize the finding, vetting and fixing of security flaws in major software running the internet.
- raesene9 8y agoAbsolutely, it's a source of constant surprise to me that basically every large company (and likely Public sector body) is making heavy use of Open source code and few are meaningfully investing in the security of it.
- wool_gather 8y agoThe people who make the decisions about where the monies go aren't the people who understand this. Some decide that it is a "calculated risk"; some are just short-sighted "it can't happen to me"; some are penny-pinchers, and the ${CURRENCY} amount is all they see.
- bigiain 8y agoIt happens way more often that most people expect. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti... for example (at least that one has a happy ending - where after the right exposure a bunch of companies benefiting from his work stepped in to fund it...)