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Wrote an article about this recently for Open Core Ventures: https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-03-someone-has-to-pay-for-the-domino/ https://opencoreventu
by hardwaresofton 4y ago
Wrote an article about this recently for Open Core Ventures:
https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-03-someone-has-to-pay-for-the-domino/ https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-03-someone-has-to-pay...
Obviously OCV is partial to open core, but the idea of open source that can win in the traditional business sense is being pushed forward by innovative companies (ex. Supabase) and YC itself at this point via the investments they make. It’s not all doom and gloom out there.
That said, library authors are certainly one of last and hardest people to properly compensate. Projects like NestJS seem to do well.
Guess we can put a pin in the idea of CLI ad space for now (and hopefully forever)
- raphlinus 4y agoI don't have an actual answer, but I strongly suspect that the compensation of library authors is going to somehow be tied to supply chain assurance. At some point it will be considered irresponsible (perhaps to the point of liability) to ship software containing FLOSS libraries without paying somebody to do a minimal audit that the version shipped has not been hijacked by malware. The only question in my mind is whether any of that money will flow to actual creators, or whether it will just sustain a self-licking ice cream cone.