When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    50 minutes ago

    Isn’t it obvious?

    Instead of having government rely on tech companies, it should just build its own solutions.

    And those solutions would be open source and use open source dependencies.

    It would then have a budget to donate to different projects given that it saves time by using other foss software.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
      3·
      16 minutes ago

      I think a good compromise is to include an open source maintenance fee on projects when used in a corporate or for-profit environment. Another option I like is to offer business support as a subscription.

      It doesn’t need to be super-expensive, but at least that would ensure some continuity for development.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 hours ago

    This book clarifies how to solve project-equity-for-contributions sanely, in startups.

    It, therefore, also helps with solving how to do equity in FLOSS/OSS projects.

    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/slicing pie handbook

    Any project which may in the future be wanting to be paid full-time for some people, please understand that book.

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