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We already have people in big companies picking winners and losers via the kinds of projects that they fund. Having more funding can only lead to more winners,
by pabs3 4y ago
We already have people in big companies picking winners and losers via the kinds of projects that they fund. Having more funding can only lead to more winners, hopefully of a different kind than what companies are picking.
- bruce511 4y agoIt's still just second-order funding though. Until we figure out how people actually getting the value from using the software contribute directly, it'll always be a sub-optimal solution. Of course to many folks the zero-cost idea is the most attractive part. Which makes it a hard circle to square. Perhaps second-order financing is the best there is. (and as an aside, second order prefers Open Source to Free Software.)
- pabs3 4y agoDirect contributions are a solved problem too, most projects have pull requests for technical contributions and donations buttons for financial contributions. The hard part is indeed to convince people to contribute, but the Blender Development Fund shows that people who care do contribute financially. https://fund.blender.org/activity/ https://fund.blender.org/activity/