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Optional 1b: Make it dominant. This might encourage firms to step in. With or without, only facilitating individual developers to offer maintenance contracts w
by mlinksva 8y ago
Optional 1b: Make it dominant.
This might encourage firms to step in. With or without, only facilitating individual developers to offer maintenance contracts would be limiting.
I hope kemitchell or someone tries the idea described by kemitchell and succeeds wildly.
- mlinksva 8y agop.s. A somewhat similar but specialized arrangement https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html and monthly reports on level of support and work done https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/ https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/
- kemitchell 8y ago> Optional 1b: Make it dominant. I'm sorry. What did you mean by this?
- mlinksva 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_assurance_contracts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_as... ... complicating and unproven in practice, just an offhand thought.
- kemitchell 8y agoAh. I'd argue the marketing-making service itself serves an entrepreneurial role in my proposal. I proposed charging for making verified funding commitments, in part to prevent some bogus commitments, but also to keep the market-maker's lights on.