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

[Andrea Goulet]

Nice find! Thanks for sharing, Natalie!

I went to a conference about making the sustainability of OSS a couple of years ago. This article echoes the sentiments I heard there from maintainers of many large scale open source projects. There’s a report available at https://sustainoss.org/.

One thing I didn’t see was a mention of Open Collective ( https://opencollective.com/ ). That seemed to be the funding model of choice from many of the maintainers I met at Sustain. 

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Have you read my First Round Review ( http://firstround.com/review/forget-technical-debt-heres-how-to-build-technical-wealth/ ) article about paying off technical debt? 

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On Sat, Feb 16 2019 at 9:58 AM, < natalie.meyers at nd.edu > wrote:

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> This post may be of interest to maintainers readers because it provides a
> history of FOSS assumptions, ethics, personalities & the economics of open
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> The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is
> That Sustainable?
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> A look at the complicated business of funding open source software
> development. 
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> 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
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> 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/ (
> http://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
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> natalie.meyers at nd.edu
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