Can we continue to invest in free work we don’t own?
It’s time to rethink Open Source
Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.
Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money
We all know the story: you can’t make money on open source. Is it really true?
Open Source Has Not Failed. Don't Cover Up Corporate Abuse of Open Source
Open source's free licensing does not drive inequality. Corporate's lack of support for open source does drive inequality.
Open Source is Not Enough
by James Halliday // The open source movement has fundamentally changed how software gets written. But in the process, corporations have been given a vast gift of free labor.
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?
We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Single-Vendor Open Source Firms (and Their Intellectual Property Strategies)
Dirk Riehle, dirk@riehle.org An edited version was published in Computer magazine, April 2020 Abstract This article present a particular business model for commercial open source firms, called the …
Fueling Open Source with Vibes & Money
Economists think Open Source is a business model. Devs know better, and fund it accordingly.
Is open source wealth distribution fair?
These concrete value propositions can convince companies to pay open source maintainers.
LibreCorps mentors humanitarian startups on how to run the open source way
Free and open source software are no longer workplace taboos, at least not in the same way they were fifteen years ago.
Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch
New alternative category to 'closed source' could help companies monetize software in the open -- without going all-in on open source.
Is This the End of Open-Source? | Built In
Open-source licensure empowers governments and moneyed interests over devs. A reckoning might be on the horizon.
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“Open Source” Is Nobody’s Property
if OSI owned it, they wouldn’t be so touchy about it
