Comment by marcosdumay
Comment by marcosdumay 2 months ago
I don't think there's any other sustainable format to make software that becomes load-bearing infrastructure. Open source is the only player existing.
What isn't sustainable is just the model where some random person takes a huge part of the responsibility for himself without any structure around it. We need different organizations.
Privately owned infrastructure is perfectly sustainable in other fields, and so is publicly funded infrastructure. I think that, if necessary, either of those could be a viable replacement for open source being the infrastructure for tech. Obviously each comes with its own pros and cons compared to open source, but they still ought to be viable.