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We’re in a period of unsustainably subsidized free environments being culled. People trying to monetize free things in order to continue providing free things
by colechristensen 3y ago
We’re in a period of unsustainably subsidized free environments being culled.
People trying to monetize free things in order to continue providing free things seems to not be working all that well.
The thing you do to make money and the free thing you offer probably just need to be separate for long term stability.
The Linux kernel model of lots of institutions supporting an actually free project is probably the only real long term successful free model.
- oneplane 3y agoI suppose the linux kernel model has the benefit of having a mutual dependency so you can't really easily long-term extract value without adding value. (i.e. forking the kernel means you'll be spending a lot of time keeping up, so doing to work to upstream your stuff has a real benefit)
- izacus 3y agoIronically, Red Hat is one of the biggest supporters of Linux Kernel and now needs to actually fund that support and dev time.