I wonder if the people making paid courses donate any of the proceeds to the projects they're teaching.
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Replying to @sebmck
Seems just as bad as companies using open source and not supporting it. Actively extracting value and putting additional users on projects.
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Replying to @sebmck
I have to admit that I've never considered being anything but grateful to companies in my ecosystems building training businesses.
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Replying to @wycats
You've also built your business on top of these open source projects. What about those projects who are struggling to be sustainable?
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if the extra users who are brought to a project by training don't help support the project, the project's business model is unsustainable
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Replying to @marypcbuk @wycats
Project's business model? It's free open source. There's no business model.
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even open source has a business model of how the project is going to stay active
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wider question of the sustainability of open source projects with no commercial stream might be the biggest question about OSS as a model
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Replying to @marypcbuk @sebmck
But there are lots of common streams. For example
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there's a whole set of issues around needing the privilege of enough income &free time to contribute to OSS as it becomes a job skill
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Absolutely. That's a major issue and one that we ought to worry about.
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