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Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by magarnicle » Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 8:12 AM UTC

myprotegeai wrote: post #37

I've maintained a fairly popular open source project for over 13 years[1]. The software is basically "complete." How does funding work for someone like me? I have no initiatives with it that require funding. Occasionally, I need to fix a bizarre obscure bug, or support a new python version/feature (async/await being the last big one). But otherwise, I just field questions a few times a month. Truth be told, I'd rathe…

BTW I love sh. It's really handy and quite clever. Thanks for making it.

Re: FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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Post by ohashi » Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

DowagerDave wrote: post #61

ohashi wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was curious how they might handle something that isn't ready yet, but in the process of being built. But that answers it, it's not eligible. Oh well :( Plenty of good open source out there deserving as well.

you're describing a startup with no business model.

You seem to be mistaking that a startup is a business and an open source project doesn't need to be. One can simply want to build something and give the code away for free because the world benefits far more from that than trying to monetize it as a business and having fewer people use it.

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