Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
by cvrjk on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:40PM
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Smart contracts are smart enough to allow formation of groups of devs, form a vote and disperse funds. Devs who are directly responsible for maintaining a portion of code can vote if the contributed code solves the issue.
Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
by wz1000 on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:32AM
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If a trusted group of developers is in charge of dispersing funds, why involve a blockchain/smart contracts at all? You can just donate to the developers, and they can disperse funds according to some predefined terms. The DAO or whatever is exactly that, but with extra steps. In either case, you still have to trust that the people in charge of distributing the funds will do so according to the terms that were agreed upon(fixing bugs or adding features or whatever).
The fundamental problem with "smart contracts" is that they are neither "smart", nor are they "contracts". Contracts deal with ambiguous meatspace issues, and are resolved through courts. Smart contracts are in no form a novel idea, they are just trading/finance bots with some added blockchain to get the suckers to give up their money. They cannot make any decisions on things that can't be verified on the network itself, which includes things like "who does this apple belong to?", "does this code solve the issue?" etc.