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All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money. OSS isn't decentralized at all, there's always at least some group of core devs who hold the c
by Scarblac 5y ago
All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money.
OSS isn't decentralized at all, there's always at least some group of core devs who hold the commit rights and who make releases. And they will want to control their funding.
- abiro 5y agoIndividual OSS projects aren't decentralized, but the process of building and distributing OSS mostly is (leaving GitHub is relatively low barrier). See iOS for a centralized ecosystem. If there was a central entity controlling OSS funding they could for example prevent forked projects from succeeding.
- leppr 5y ago> All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money. That's the thing, on the internet, simple old fashioned money is not like simple old fashioned money. Keeping accounts and transferring old fashioned money between peers on the internet is not trivial. Discounting the on-boarding problem, crypto is way closer to cash than payment processing networks like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal. Accepting crypto for any kind of work is trivial, you just generate a standard address/QR code that can be read by any other standard wallet, and receive a standard crypto that can be exchanged freely.
- saalweachter 5y agoMy read on this is "Patreon for OSS/corporate relations". Start a Patreon-like business where corporations/users can sign up to give a monthly donation-subscription-contribution to a slew of OSS developers, anywhere from $1 / mo to $$$. Reduce the friction of financially supporting every tiny project you make use of. Throw in a nice suite of uniform communication channels for bug requests and version announcements.