Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    8 days ago

    Nothing and everything.

    There are thousands if not millions of open source solutions scattered around society. Some are feature complete, most are not. Some are maintained, many are not. A handful are funded, the rest is not.

    What open source needs, more than anything else is fundraising and the means to distribute those funds to the tune of the trillions of dollars that the corporate world extracts in profits from those open source efforts.

    In other words, the people who make this need to get paid.

    Firefox terms and conditions, Red Hat, and several other projects that have caused uproar through the community, are all caused by the need to get paid to eat food and have a roof over your head whilst you contribute to society and give away your efforts.