@michael_nielsen @wilbanks -- every tech IPO should have a percentage earmarked for commons buildout.
If any billionaires want to set up a foundation, they could do worse than to create an open source foundation to build out the commons...
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@davewiner Love what@stripe are doing in this vein: https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-open-source-retreat … andhttps://stripe.com/blog/open-source-retreat-grantees …
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@michael_nielsen Scope is broader, but the Shuttleworth Foundation has been providing funding for related projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttleworth_Foundation … -
@ralpost Shuttleworth is absolutely great! But relatively small scale support for OS, in terms of # of projects.
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@michael_nielsen@maradydd but why would such commons financed by this foundation be safer than the ones implemented by volunteers? -
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@michael_nielsen We are funded that way and hoping to provide that value: http://cos.io/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen I've long thought that'd be a great thing for a foundation to do, esp. wrt the detritus of academic software.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen Hmm... having just re-read its mission statement, it seems that the SF is actually pretty closely aligned to your goal.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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