Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ...
by coldtea on Saturday February 13, 2021 @12:09PM
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>Its such a statement about the free rider problem that python can have only 2 people working fulltime on it
It's also a big statement about how non realistic were the ideas that FOSS will thrive on volunteers working together.
Back in the day where the "Cathredral and the Bazaar" was published, VALinux got its IPO, and FOSS was the latest hype, people really believed that this will work without corporate sponsorship, just by volunteers doing the work.
Then again, they also believed in many eyes available through the magic of FOSS making bugs shallow (Torvalds), and you get 20+ years of some obvious bug in something as critical as OpenSSL.
It's also a big statement about how non realistic were the ideas that FOSS will thrive on volunteers working together.
Back in the day where the "Cathredral and the Bazaar" was published, VALinux got its IPO, and FOSS was the latest hype, people really believed that this will work without corporate sponsorship, just by volunteers doing the work.
Then again, they also believed in many eyes available through the magic of FOSS making bugs shallow (Torvalds), and you get 20+ years of some obvious bug in something as critical as OpenSSL.