,
3 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
I definitely don’t think this is the last word in sustainability for independent OSS developers, but am glad to see Github getting into it pretty seriously.
They’ve become indispensable technical infrastructure and are in a good place to leverage that.
They’ve become indispensable technical infrastructure and are in a good place to leverage that.
OSS development is B2B professional services work and, while I think that allowing people to pay their rent with well-loved projects through easily sourced voluntary donations is a darn sight better than not receiving money, think that ultimately someone needs to sell a CTO/etc.
“Hey $BANK you owe, let’s see, a billion dollars.” “Cool cool, see you next year.” “Wait you didn’t even blink.” “Have you seen my IT budget?”
