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Open source beyond the market
Like other creators, open source developers rely heavily upon platforms to distribute their work.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
The core problem is not that open source projects are not sharing the money received. The problem is that, in total numbers, open source is not getting enough money. $2.5 million is not enough. To put this number into perspective, startups get typically much more than that.
André Staltz • Software below the poverty line
Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right or software ``hoarding'' is morally wrong (assuming you believe the latter, which neither Linus nor I do), but simply because the closed-source world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more... See more