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We look at open source funding in isolation but wealth inequality is pervasively unbalanced all over the place. Per-project funding has already failed to alloc
by benologist 7y ago
We look at open source funding in isolation but wealth inequality is pervasively unbalanced all over the place. Per-project funding has already failed to allocate resources adequately because it's only corporate projects that are funded not their dependencies. One proposed solution to this wider inequality is Universal Basic Incomes, that funds open source by design.
There are a lot of reasons to like UBI as a funding channel for open source. Open source contributes immensely to people learning how to use computers and even the bad ideas can influence the future. There is all this value and ecosystem being excluded when we look at funding on a per-project basis.