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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] hitwright@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Open source should be funded by the tax-payers, or all code should be forcibly open-source (something like AGPL)

Any other models feels like they would create perverse incentives

Also recurring donations feels like a better way than one-time tips

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

By which country?

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 19 points 7 months ago

Saudi Arabia.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

All of them? Maybe an international consortium that pays devs in their home currency.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Each of them.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure many people could point to hundreds of dangers around open-source programs relying on government funding. Yet, I can't argue that it seems to be a necessity.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.

A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

???

So what's the problem with those protocols?

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?

I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

Same as all other tax funded projects, by some elected people who likely have no idea about the project.

Joking aside, we will see more of this funding due to governments moving to open source software as they tend to want to fund their own stuff.