NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation

Re:NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Founda... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @07:17AM (#14551921)

I agree what I presented is quite a selfish POV. What I was aiming at is an explanation why those very liberal licenses are attractive to developers at the initial stage of an open source project. Initially, the userbase is much more valuable than monetary contributions - I doubt that e.g. NumPy developers at the beginning of their work were confident that their project will end up being widely used by the financial sector.

The presented reasoning may indeed be a big part of the problem here. I'm just describing it, not encouraging it. I am definitely not happy to see so much open source being used as critical components of worldwide infrastructure and businesses, and yet receiving little support both in terms of money and professional effort. FWIW, I do donate the little spare money I have to open source projects.

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Re:NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Founda... by Radim on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:08AM (#14558040)

Absolutely. Sustainability only becomes an issue when there's something to sustain :-)

Beginnings are a creative effort, undertaken by passionate pioneers (rarely in it for the money), with outcomes that are notoriously hard to predict in advance. The hallmark of academia.

That's why I said the later transition hurts -- it's a conceptual and cultural shift, not merely financial.

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