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It is slogan- and buzzword-heavy but my best understanding is that it is a blockchain-based attempt to reward open-source contributors. As an example, lots and
by mynegation 5y ago
It is slogan- and buzzword-heavy but my best understanding is that it is a blockchain-based attempt to reward open-source contributors. As an example, lots and lots of software depends on sqlite and curl but their respective authors did not benefit proportionally from their successes. My guess: the idea is to combine dependency information with popularity scores to allow cryptocurrency flow down to the contributors in the same way reputation flows to the most referred links via PageRank.
The most important question I see here is how the money is supposed to flow into that system.
- spiralpolitik 5y agoI'm guessing based on the information in page they plan to set up DAO and issue a token. I'm guessing users and developers can then buy-in, with tokens flowing to projects based on usage as determined by the graph stored on the blockchain. At the core if you strip away the "web 3.0" language then it's a decent idea. There is a lot of devil in the detail so it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
- jrapdx3 5y agoIn the case of sqlite (created by D. Richard Hipp) the software is public domain. Development was funded (at least in part) by corporations. The author isn't expecting payments from "ordinary" users. The author's firm charges hefty fees for consulting services. These are directed at enterprises needing "certified" versions of sqlite. I'm assuming these are companies providing software under military/government contract. So it's an interesting strategy: release sqlite as public domain. The software is used everywhere, so much so it's an indispensable part of the infrastructure. Then when giant enterprise uses it charge huge fees they gladly pay. Hipp is without doubt a genuine genius.