I'm no fan of hostage-taking-via-license-and-naming-rights, but the underlying is bad: too many OSS maintainers are paid too little; Silicon Valley happily rides their wave while erasing them, one ahistorical product launch at a time.https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1067219073539473408 …
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OSS provides dependency resilience, lots of things are too complex to build repeatedly, and too critical to leave in the hands of one master. Or are you arguing Chrome is only open source as a growth hack?
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I'm reading "OSS" in Alex's tweets as "volunteer-maintained OSS", if that helps.
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Sincerely curious, what are the sustainable alternatives to OSS in your opinion? Solely financial incentives?
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