Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by trome on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:48PM (#13604748)

Entire businesses like Red Hat & Suse are built on the middle ground. There is room in the market for OSS creators to be compensated for their work.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by anigbrowl on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:01AM (#13605216)

True, but not everyone wants to be part of a business. What if there were some umbrella nonprofit that collected funds for open source development and redistributed to various projects in approximate proportion to their deployment in production, as well as seed or micro-capital to encourage new contributions?

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by tavert on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:12AM (#13605256)

You mean like http://www.numfocus.org ? That's not quite how their fiscal sponsorship agreements work, but close enough.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by anigbrowl on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:43PM (#13610182)

Did not know about this. Thanks for sharing, this is very encouraging to see.

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by krylon on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:28AM (#13605474)

I may have been misunderstanding the whole thing, but wasn't the FSF supposed to kind of do that (among other things, but still)?

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by anigbrowl on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:42PM (#13610175)

I'm not sure, I haven't followed the topic closely enough in recent years to form an opinion.

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