One of the most miraculous things about our tech infrastructure is the degree to which it depends on open source software. We mostly take this for granted, but a time traveller from 1975 would be very surprised by it.
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Why would people do all this work for free? How could their efforts possibly be coordinated? How could we trust the resulting code? And yet all these problems get solved, it not perfectly, then well enough.
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Not specific to open-source but great description of emergent order.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODHBrCQdUy8 …
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Who would have ever thought that entrepreneurs will stop looking at P&Ls while building a billion-dollar business?
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i disagree. y combinator unicorns have done considerable amount of contributions to open source by making internal projects public, and maintaining a strong community. still nowhere near google though, but no one can beat google in that.
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The same goes for Wikipedia, the world’s canonical knowledge reference is user contributed
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It’s not necessarily for free and there are equivalents in other domains. Academics don’t write papers “for free”. They do it for career advancement. And these days people want to see your GitHub link as a prerequisite for certain opportunities.
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Money is what one gets when the thing itself isn't reward enough.
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Close, but I would say "needs" rather than "gets". People often do get money for work they enjoy, if so few can do it that those who can can get paid in both money and satisfaction.
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Let alone the cultural infrastructure of
@Wikipedia. Access to and protection of all humanity’s core knowledge of the entire universe effectively depends on a few thousand random ass anonymous volunteers. -
Yes. A friend who works at Google told me that Wikipedia is the single most valuable source of information online, at least as measured by its contribution to successful search results.
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