Software below the poverty line
Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collective, or Buy Me A Coffee. Besides the very few that have reached commercial success by transforming into enterprise SaaS, the vast majority of projects failed to find adequate funding.
Tina He • [FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Nadia Asparouhova • 7 highlights
amazon.com
Looking at the landscape of open source software today, I note two things. First, successful open source platforms tend to be partnered with caretaker organizations. Wikipedia has the Wikimedia Foundation, Linux has the constellation of organizations around the Linux Foundation, and Kubernetes has the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Second, open... See more