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It'd be good to find ways for open source authors to capture more of that value, while retaining all the benefits of open source. @feross's essay is a great thoughtful survey of the problem!
This comment here points to a massive, massive failure of the invisible hand.pic.twitter.com/vwpAJ96XXH
I suspect that for an old-school economist of the "invisible hand" era, the main question would be why anybody actually does maintain open source projects without payment.
A large number of people in tech are under 30. So it's entirely possible that they've simply never considered this flip side to releasing a bunch of code online under the same licenses that the big players use (MIT License). We're taught to write algorithms but not the side stuff
it's still impressive how much software has been and being developed just 'for fun' with no monetary incentives, in programmers spare time. Only other area I can think of where situation is similar are arts (in the the classic sense, e.g. music, writing etc)
The invisible hand only works if the solution provider (the open source maintainer) provides his solution in return for a price as determined by the market. Open source work currently exists outside traditional markets, and suffers from massive 'free-rider' problems.
i struggle with how this can be fixed. On one hand, Stallman and @dhh would say that there is no point trying to capture value from FOSS, goes against the grain. On the other, we deal with tragedy of the commons all the time, with centralized funding and allocation.
Yet most proposals ive seen are badly flawed, biasing toward old packages and maintainers with high package count. Gitcoin overindexes on extrinsic motivation. @transitive_bs has had chats with @devonzuegel and YC about solutions. nothing solid yet.
Why is it “far less beneficial to society”?
The current system does not fit the open source model. There lies an opportunity for creative destruction.
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