This is a bon mot. Not entirely sure I agree with it, particularly given the spectrums of intensity of founding vs. maintainership, but there needs to be a rethink of the desirability of having agents of for-profit companies routinely expect free labor from professionals.https://twitter.com/feross/status/1172185645705359362 …
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I always feel a little conflicted here with my entrepreneur hat on. When I was running a company I sent $X0k to OSS projects I used, usually after educating them what they’d need to successfully invoice a company.
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And I’ll admit to a little bit of “If my accountant made a considered decision to just do my taxes for free I’d probably say ‘Well, you’re a professional, clearly you have thought that through’ but I’m fixing an OSS dev’s business at expense of mine due to presumed incapacity.”
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I would like our community to develop and replicate the social technology it takes to turn being an OSS maintainer of a successful project into a viable career path, like running a SaaS company, being a startup founder, or taking AppAmaGooBookSoft’s shilling are all options.
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Prior discussion from this morning about the OSS pie cutting: https://twitter.com/laubenedict/status/1172146192299581444?s=21 … It’s probably better to attempt this in public and log experiences, so we’re not going for the same first five things that come to mind over and over again, and have it not work.
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The Joel Test should add a 13th criteria, which is "financially supports open source projects used by our team".
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Seriously, why are maintainers maintaining for free and then complaining no one’s paying them? It doesn’t make any sense.
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I agree. From my perspective, as applied to software businesses, the market is surprisingly efficient and the ultimate test of value creation. There’s a ton of capital available and a plethora of problems to solve for those really looking to create value.
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Simply saying, “I built this thing that people are using,” is a necessary but not even close to sufficient criteria to found a company and capture value back from any value created.
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