Open source has a funding problem

By Stack Overflow Blog - 2021-01-07

Description

Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay ...

Summary

Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable.
Same with using dependency management systems like Maven, npm, … i.e.
Maven global could just take money, and depending on my requests and downloads they could distribute it to the developers.
Even when direct influence is minimal, the impact of contributors paid on someone else’s dime can push a project in a different direction than the originator and/or project maintainer wants to go.
Open Source needs to have that kind of strategy as well in order to sustain.

Topics

Management (0.25)
Backend (0.04)
NLP (0.04)

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