t10q
Re:The complicated business of funding open source software development
on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:57AM (#19170493)
I think you have provided a very good list, but I think the list contains actual showstoppers.
I know several OSS ecosystems where grants and commercial funding already destroy the original OSS spirit.
You get a set of bureaucrats who control who gets to work on OSS and what is being worked on. Often they take the credit for the results.
I think OSS should be result oriented: If someone can demonstrate that a piece of software he wrote is used widely, there should be a possibility of retroactive public funding.
But results rarely count in the current OSS boiler room atmosphere.