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Yeah. I hope software management gets less comfortable with these answers and put their money toward real sustainability such that we see the commercial sides of FOSS projects grow in quality and quantity, with sustainable business models around sponsored features, bug bounties, support engagement, etc. and no need to stoop to licensing the software itself for money (neither restrictively free/commercial dual licenses or enterprise/community feature splits).


That would be the ideal case, a sort of FOSS non-profit structure. Hard to create the economic alignment however.


One thing that might be able to help is to improve the incentives around security. If some more liability for misuse of systems fell on those who deployed those systems, then people would push harder for quality or pay for indemnification, and either way that puts more dollars toward stability.

That said, I'd note that I'm a more than a little concerned that it would be done horribly wrong if attempted.




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