Laurie Voss argues that free-riding is the stable outcome of open source economics and that voluntary funding and corporate goodwill cannot fix it, proposing that package registries and distribution channels build in ways to charge the companies that depend on maintainers’ work.
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
Laurie Voss argues that free-riding is the stable outcome of open source economics and that voluntary funding and corporate goodwill cannot fix it, proposing that package registries and distribution channels build in ways to charge the companies that depend on maintainers' work.
Source: Seldo