Open Source Sustainability
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Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid. A new generation wants to change the economics.
Time for shareware to make a return?
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Techcrunch[^]:
Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid. A new generation wants to change the economics.
Time for shareware to make a return?
I think what's difficult about the open source model that if a company wants to contribute to a open source project in money or labor, that company also helping its competitors, and this is very conflicting. For projects that have many users that conflict diminishes, but for projects with a relatively small amount of users and with just 1 or 2 people running the project it becomes a bigger concern.
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