[Themaintainers] Stepping stone history of FOSS assumptions, ethics, personalities & economics

[Natalie Meyers]

This post may be of interest to maintainers readers because it
provides a history
of FOSS assumptions, ethics, personalities & the economics of open source

The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That
Sustainable?
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software
development.
By Daniel Oberhaus
<https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/contributor/daniel-oberhaus>
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Feb 14 2019, 2:30pm
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable


Tim Head writes of this post : “Saturday long read: an interesting read on
history, present and future of the economy of open-source software
(development): motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/… my take away: giving
time is way better than giving money. What are you waiting for?”
-- 
Natalie K Meyers, MA, MLIS
E-research Librarian
Hesburgh Libraries
University of Notre Dame

natalie.meyers at nd.edu
574-631-1546
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