https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/

@david_ross TBH I've always seen existing OS funding ecosystem as "multi faith soup kitchen" (i.e making use of leftovers and surpluses from bigger more powerful organisations)

That is *not* to that is bad (real ones do a very good job looking after folk in my town) but that means they are ofc dependent on goodwill of more powerful orgs >>

@david_ross and dependent on the surplus being there to start with (hence why FOSS was such a big thing in more optimistic late 90s/00s).

also a more cynical take is that devs build a FOSS project as something to get them hired for a paying gig (it does make me wonder though if a modern version of the nationalised telecom company could work?)>>

@david_ross e.g a part of Openreach, Deutsche Telekom, KPN etc provides *infrastructure only* (leaving the existing competitive market for services alone), but also takes on young techs (not necessarily all from uni) with reasonably secure job but also an amount of "slack time" which is used to contribute to FOSS s/w *and* h/w projects? >>