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Am I the only person that gets worried when a great open source project gets a lot of VC money? Without VC funding, an open source project is a success if it i
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
Am I the only person that gets worried when a great open source project gets a lot of VC money?
Without VC funding, an open source project is a success if it is useful to the devs and provides a comfortable income to the maintainers. Basically, a "lifestyle" business.
With VC funding, the goal now becomes generating huge returns or failing fast, which is fundamentally at odds with a good open source project. Thus the pressure comes to either aggressively monetize the project, or else to get it acquired by someone.
- neurostimulant 6y agoThe investor is not a VC though, but a private equity firm, which is probably even worse? I hope this won't negatively affect the future of the open source version.