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How will you decide which projects to fund? The ones with more code to show, having founders with a more prestigious CV, etc. tend to be the ones building on ol
by asciilifeform 18y ago
How will you decide which projects to fund? The ones with more code to show, having founders with a more prestigious CV, etc. tend to be the ones building on old, broken (i.e. Unix) foundations of the past.
There's no shortage of crackpots who are convinced that they can turn computing upside down if someone were to pay their living expenses for a year or so (disclaimer: this might include myself: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8 I started entirely from scratch, and with a conscious rejection of burdensome OS traditions, but have practically no free time to work.)
- Agent101 18y agoI'm thinking of a variety of ideas, mainly to do with farming out the decision making process to qualified people who donate. E.g. sending out information to a few people and letting them chose whether to fund it or not. No point getting too far in advance though, unless I can find potential donors. I am one of those crackpots as well, I just figured it would be better to try and build an institution for funding OS research than tinker on my own and it whither from lack of people to take it forward.