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It does work for the right sorts of projects [0] > whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and subtle question. rule of thu
by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It does work for the right sorts of projects [0]
> whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and subtle question. rule of thumb, be at least two of these: big, boring (roughly correlates with "infrastructural" as @patio11 puts it), and lacking obvious substitutes
Many projects with high star counts fall into only one of those categories
[0]: https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456 https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456
- nomel 4y agoI would claim, while biting my lip, that python meets those. It had two paid developers in 2019 [1]: https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developers/924 https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developer...