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Examples appreciated - and please keep in mind the "large" part. Yes, you can occasionally find a few individuals being in a fortunate enough position that they
by groby_b 3y ago
Examples appreciated - and please keep in mind the "large" part. Yes, you can occasionally find a few individuals being in a fortunate enough position that they can work independent of the outside world on a small/medium project, but I'm not aware of any large projects where that is the case.
I'd love to be wrong about that.
- wolverine876 3y agoWhat do you mean by 'large'? Mozilla? Linux? BSDs? Signal? ? Also, as in my other comment, it depends on how we define the involvement of capitalism. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37679386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37679386
- groby_b 3y agoMoz/Linux/BSD probably qualify. None of them would be possible without some kind of corporate support. FreeBSD is probably doing the best, but even for them they need corporate donors[1] Linux absolutely is carried to a large part by companies employing people to work on Linux. Mozilla needs to find income to pay its own employees. All three are slightly different models, but all three make it fairly clear that you can't cut all ties. As for the "what do you mean" part, "obtaining money via capitalist endeavors related to the project so non-affluent devs can actually afford to work on the project" is probably a good enough definition. In comparison, Signal is small - and even it can only make it because an extremely affluent person (Brian Acton) carries them. It's not reproducible for larger projects. [1]https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/