Some thoughts: - FOSS is high quality because really talented people with drive work to build the best they can, across global boundaries - FOSS is also high

Some thoughts: - FOSS is high quality because really talented people with drive work to build the best they can, across global boundaries - FOSS is also high quality because it's an almost perfect market - discoverability is high, transfer costs low and so the best becomes dominant - There is also a lot of bad FOSS code out there. - Lots of FOSS like lots of proprietary code is just bloated. - There needs to be some maintenance - but equally some ... it used to be called systems integration. - I think the layer of for profit, not for profit and charitable work should focus there - systems integration. Imagine a world where a ISV gets "certified" on say a Python MatPlotlib, with at least two employees having made accepted pull requests. or something. Now we have a layer of companies that have profit and cash flow and an interest in maintaining those foss projects. Not merely using them for free.