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I'm arguing against middleman businesses, not for. I don't see the non-profit model scaling to the whole industry, and the examples we have today of non-profit
by FiloSottile 5y ago
I'm arguing against middleman businesses, not for.
I don't see the non-profit model scaling to the whole industry, and the examples we have today of non-profit foundations mostly don't pay maintainers. For example, Log4j is under the Apache Foundation but none of the developers on its committee were being paid.
- yakak 5y agoElementary OS as a business was the two initial maintainers and that fell apart pretty spectacularly, plus a lot of the work was really not theirs they were just a distribution. Apache's model is the traditional one which isn't aggressive enough. Linux foundation is more aggressive about offering lessons as products etc. I'm not as happy with LF' model as the hippie model but it is better than devolving into no new work causing no one to donate because ex-maintainers are supposed to have vesting future stock, etc.