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This has nothing to do with OSS developers being compensated, it's about risk management for the consumer. If you build your business on something that might d
by growse 2y ago
This has nothing to do with OSS developers being compensated, it's about risk management for the consumer.
If you build your business on something that might disappear because someone decides to suddenly stop working on it, it's rational to incentivise them (or others) to not do that.
- MrDarcy 2y agoNot do which? Build a business on OSS, or incentivize OSS maintainers to not disappear?
- growse 2y agoThe latter. Same is true of all business dependencies, not just OSS ones. It's a large reason why a lot of companies do M&A - it minimizes the risks of not having control over that dependency.