Re:Free Software and Freakonomics
by taffronaut on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:46AM
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The economics of FOSS is not a solved problem and the author deserves kudos here for asking questions that I don't see asked anywhere else. The examples chosen are maybe not the most current, and there are counterexamples especially in B2B contexts but I'm applauding here and I'll save my more critical review for the book when it comes out.
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Re:Free Software and Freakonomics
by macspoofing on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:22AM
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>The economics of FOSS is not a solved problem and the author deserves kudos here for asking questions that I don't see asked anywhere else.
Are you sure? FOSS has been around for decades now and FOSS underpins all commercial products. It feels like whatever the economics of FOSS are, they are working.
It is certainly working for some people. Compensation of the CEO of Mozilla was $2,458,350. Salary alone for Director of Linux Foundation was $644,300 https://nonprofitlight.com/ca/san-francisco/linux-foundation
I'm assuming they're rewarded fairly at market rates for continuing to ensure FOSS developers are spending years of their lives debugging and solving hard problems, and that no one else is capable or willing to do an equivalent job for less.