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I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

seldo.comNobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.comThirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.

Daniel Mendes

@daniel-mendes.ch

13 Sept

It works for game modding registries like modrinth.com/legal/cmp-info. It's just that the revenue comes from ads and is split 75% for creators and 25% for the company.

modrinth.comRewards Program InformationInformation about the Rewards Program of Modrinth, an open source modding platform focused on Minecraft.

Daniel Mendes

@daniel-mendes.ch

13 Sept

Also interesting to point out, the fact that the default registry for games was curseforge who became greedy/stale was replaced by an open-source version modrinth. npmx could for example implement a reward program

Laurie Voss

@seldo.com

npmx is not the registry and could not implement the program as I've imagined it.

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