<div dir="auto">This post may be of interest to maintainers readers because it provides a<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"> history of FOSS assumptions, ethics, personalities &amp; the economics</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"> of open source </span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><h1 class="hed-xxl article__title m-t-3-xs m-t-4-m m-b-3-xs m-b-4-m" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:1.9375rem;margin:15px 0px;font-family:CalvertMTBold,Arial,TazuganeGothic,serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3">The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?</h1><div class="short-form-article__header-dek-wrapper" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:640px;font-family:sans-serif" dir="auto"><h2 class="article__dek hed-l m-b-5-xs" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:CalvertMTBold,Arial,TazuganeGothic,serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;margin:0px 0px 30px;font-size:1.1875rem">A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. </h2><div class="article-body__contributions-wrapper dsp-block-xs dsp-none-m m-b-4-xs" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:20px"><div class="article__contributions bod-xs dsp-flex-xs grd-algn-flex-start-xs" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:flex;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,TazuganeGothic,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:0.75rem"><div style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="contributor__by" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-transform:capitalize">By </span><a class="contributor__link hed-xs" href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/contributor/daniel-oberhaus" title="Daniel Oberhaus" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(121,116,189);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;line-height:1.3;font-size:0.75rem">Daniel Oberhaus</a></div><div class="m-l-2-xs m-r-2-xs pipe" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-right:10px;margin-left:10px;color:rgb(170,170,170)">|</div><div class="article__contributions__publishdate" style="box-sizing:inherit;white-space:nowrap">Feb 14 2019, 2:30pm</div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Tim Head writes of this post : “<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica">Saturday long read: an interesting read on history, present and future of the economy of open-source software (development): <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/">motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/</a>… my take away: giving time is way better than giving money. What are you waiting for?” </span></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Natalie K Meyers, MA, MLIS<br>E-research Librarian<br>Hesburgh Libraries<br>University of Notre Dame<br><br><a href="mailto:natalie.meyers@nd.edu">natalie.meyers@nd.edu</a><br>574-631-1546<br></div>