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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by worldsayshi on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:24AM (#18939098)
Funding is the obvious biggest issue with open source sustainability. But it's arguably not the lowest hanging fruit. Because it seems to be a hard problem. Perhaps even a wicked problem.
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Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability by quadrangle on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:56PM (#18942402)
Yes, exactly. It's the public-goods funding dilemma. The one that has only ever been really solved by mandatory taxation (with all its problems).

Snowdrift.coop is trying to (lacking resources itself for the same reasons) build an actual solution for as-good-as-we-can while being fully voluntary (unlike taxes).

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