a few questions about open source http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/26/a-few-questions-about-open-source/ …
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Replying to @b0rk
tl;dr i don't understand how open source works but i think if i had a better social model of where OSS comes from it would help me
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In particular, the wider open source community is revenue negative: that is, most OSS developers work for free.
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That doesn’t really work out well long-term, and leads to some tricky problems (see: https://caremad.io/posts/2016/10/hire-me/ … )
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Replying to @Lukasaoz
i spent a while last month imagining with a friend about a foundation that would just pay for development of important OSS
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Some of them already exist, such as the Core Infrastructure Initiative, the Linux Foundation, the OpenStack Foundation, etc.
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