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Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable

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Re: Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable

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dzdt wrote: post #2

Bad headline. Article is about identifying open source infrastructure tools as an overlooked category for venture capital funding.

Maybe if VCs do not see a way to make a decent return on their investments on common infrastructure (as seems to be the case also with physical infrastructure), we should consider funding that work through taxes. The article refers to Mark Suster's comment that "[OSS projects] directly caused tech’s rapid rise". This work benefits many, and we rely on it to exist - and function (Heartbleed), so there are similarities to physical infrastructure.

How about a new civil servant job: OSS maintainer.

Re: Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable

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Post by cpr »

Anchor wrote: post #3
dzdt wrote: post #2

Bad headline. Article is about identifying open source infrastructure tools as an overlooked category for venture capital funding.

Maybe if VCs do not see a way to make a decent return on their investments on common infrastructure (as seems to be the case also with physical infrastructure), we should consider funding that work through taxes. The article refers to Mark Suster's comment that "[OSS projects] directly caused tech’s rapid rise". This work benefits many, and we rely on it to exist - and function (Heartbleed), so there are similarities…

Sure, let the efficiency experts at the government find and supply the workers. ;-)

Re: Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable

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Post by forgottenpass »

Anchor wrote: post #3
dzdt wrote: post #2

Bad headline. Article is about identifying open source infrastructure tools as an overlooked category for venture capital funding.

Maybe if VCs do not see a way to make a decent return on their investments on common infrastructure (as seems to be the case also with physical infrastructure), we should consider funding that work through taxes. The article refers to Mark Suster's comment that "[OSS projects] directly caused tech’s rapid rise". This work benefits many, and we rely on it to exist - and function (Heartbleed), so there are similarities…

Why should my taxes subsidize the open source toolkits of closed source projects? Unless you're talking about taxing only software startups, I don't want them getting a handout.
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