opensource
-
Whose problem is lack of OSS funding?
“If a bunch of hunters go out and shoot all the ducks to extinction, you don’t title an article that ducks have failed as a species, you say that duck hunting is a problem.”
via HN
-
#BuildSoftwareTogether is a tag I’ve been using to mean that people should collaborate with developers and each other to build software … together.
And support and maintain it over time, too.
That may seem obvious but in many cases the construction of software is all by the maker, with limited input or support by people who use it.
And that in fact, the users of the software should take more responsibility as well, especially in the context of when they aren’t actually buying the software as a product.
My best suggestion on licensing is that non-commercial forms have the best trade offs: usage by those who make money with it fund the maintainers, anyone else can use it at no charge.
This article goes further to say that the corporate form of software itself is the issue:
Quirky, personal software that is aggressively unscalable & focuses on delivering human needs in human time over machine needs in machine time is nicer to write, nicer to use, and difficult for capital to subvert.
A response to:
Open-Source Needs a Reckoning, Greg Kennedy
See, the core problem with all “free” software licenses is this: they are aimed at only protecting the Product, and not the People who make or use it. The goal is to produce the best software, not the best community.
-
Feeling locked in by open source
Ton wrote a post about his usage of the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress and used the word “lock in”. I understand what h... -
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source by @MWeinberg2D covers a recent case where the maintainer didn’t want to have to handle increased support — but then also didn’t want to be forked.
-
Reflecting on 20 years of Drupal & my personal mission
Dries, founder of the Drupal project, posted his thoughts and wishes from 20 years. He included 3 birthday wishes. The f... -
Cognitect post on sponsoring the Clojure ecosystem
“Imagine if every company using open source were to provide tangible sponsorship, on an ongoing basis, directly to the ... -
Here’s a really great people-centric view thinking about open source maintainers by Evan You, founder of VueJS.
The context is a thought experiment: what if only sponsors could file issues?
-
Sean @coates wrote up how he checked Canada’s COVID Alert app and submitted a fix.
Thanks Sean, & thanks to the Canadian Digital Service for source code availability & responsiveness!
-
We're all in the same lifeboat
The hashtag #MozillaLifeboat is highlighting the ~250 people laid off by Mozilla. Here’s Mitchell Baker’s of... -
Craigstarter - open source crowdfunding tool for Shopify
Craigstarter on Github A free to use / edit / extend crowdfunding tool for Shopify with multiple goals and variants as ... -
Public vs Common Goods in Open Source, responding to @tobie
Responding to @Tobie’s thread on examining open source as a commons. In the context of digital abundance, the open sourc... -
Digital Abundance and creator compensation
Kyle Mitchell writes The Truth is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free as commentary to Nathan J. Robinson’s editor’s note in... -
New podcast: Value in Open, about doing #opensource for a living:
Any open source value creator is deserving of a fair share of the profits that their work generates for others. But figuring out reasonable ways to “collect” without running afoul of deeply rooted open source principles is an incredible challenge. – @erlend_sh
-
Is an open source Instagram possible?
The Sunlit 3 beta is available, and now open source. Is an open source “Instagram” possible? I had a long discussion wit... -
Kyle writes about the evolution of @LicenseZero as an Indie Code Catalog. The tag line is “gainful open software development” — for developers looking to thrive.