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But for serious - if companies actually cared about open source sustainability instead of virtue signaling, they'd turn those massive exits into windfalls for open source maintainers and foundations.
My point is this: the root cause of oss burnout is money. The only way to solve it is money. Tech companies make billions off oss and give almost nothing back. They could solve the problem today and barely dent their bottom lines.
I'm surprised at how angry this makes me! I think it's because I'm understanding that we were sold a bill of goods. We convinced ourselves that open source was Good For The World when in fact it was Good For Jeff Bezos (etc). We gave diamonds away and got peanuts in return.
is there any kind of estimate as to how much we'd be talking about there?
It'd take less than $1m/yr to make @djangoproject incredibly sustainable. It's an averagish sized codebase. Let's say a thousand projects out there, that's a billion dollars.
Google alone made $33 bn in Q3.
So change the license terms? Does the nature of the license need updating to reflect the social contract that's really needed?
I am coming to the opinion that this may be necessary. The problem I find is that any suggestion that the Open Source Definition (or worse - the Free Software Definition) may be incomplete or require modification is met with… an unhelpful response.
Yes - if you propose non-free licenses you're a heretic to The Cause. But ultimately I think it doesn't matter: the tech industry now is strong enough to just route around as AWS did with Mongo. I think we just have to face the fact that it's fundamentally broken.
I don't agree. I've burned out a few times and money hasn't been a factor. I've pushed myself harder than I should have and eventually hit a breaking point. Money wouldn't have solved it, it would have made it worse and increased the pressure.
Money is an important aspect of sustainablility, and I'm all for paying maintainers, but I do think it is likely to make burnout worse. When people are burning out they need to stop for a while. That's actually easier without their livelihood directly tied to the work.
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