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I think that underscores the tension that will always exist with open source. It's nearly impossible for altruism to remain self-sustaining. The rare glimpses
by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
I think that underscores the tension that will always exist with open source. It's nearly impossible for altruism to remain self-sustaining. The rare glimpses when it exists should be cherished rather than conflated with the small business David vs. Goliath complex.
- maccard 2y agoI think that world still exists. We're on HN, so there's always going to be a business/startup bias in what we talk about and share here. And doubly so if someone develops a product as open source with a commercial offering to support it from the get go. Off the top of my head, Imgui[0] is an example of an open source project, widely used, developed by a small group with a main contributor. AssetCooker [1] is a project that I discovered recently which is clearly a passion project from a single developer who shared it with the world. CNCF [2] is an odd one, but in my mind it's a 21st century Apache foundation - they have a bunch of core projects which are complete open source projects, used widely in production and sustained through different models. I think imgui (of the bunch) is probably closest to the GCC-of-the-early-90's idea. [0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [1] https://github.com/jlaumon/AssetCooker https://github.com/jlaumon/AssetCooker [2] https://www.cncf.io/projects/ https://www.cncf.io/projects/