i love open source
but its hard to make
money when you give
it away publicly for free

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they don't. it's also the perfect problem for crypto to solve (tho hardly anyone is working on it)

Gitfish. Gitcoin. @tipdotmd 

There are more but it’s not necessarily the perfect solution for crypto because a lot of opensource projects/their maintainers also are very concerned that crypto is a massive scam. 

And you can’t blame them. 

See

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Gitfish. Gitcoin. @tipdotmd 

There are more but it’s not necessarily the perfect solution for crypto because a lot of opensource projects/their maintainers also are very concerned that crypto is a massive scam. 

And you can’t blame them. 

See https://gist.github.com/torvalds/6faadce34c56d53b2d5352da0c3cd093?permalink_comment_id=5622276

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for the record, solving this problem (and more broadly, the problem of aligning profit and value creation in non-scarce goods) is exactly why I quit my job and started working in crypto

genuinely believe this is the most important problem of our age

we might consider swapping notes - you're looking at this from a crypto angle, i'm looking a this from an open source angle (i've been involved in free software/open source since 1996 technically)

for the record, solving this problem (and more broadly, the problem of aligning profit and value creation in non-scarce goods) is exactly why I quit my job and started working in crypto

genuinely believe this is the most important problem of our age https://paragraph.com/@abundance/a-crypto-economic-revolution

as someone who's been working full-time on open source projects in the crypto space for nearly 2 years now, I can tell you that gitcoin maybe helped me cover 1 month of rent (not to mention how much time one needs to spend shilling their project instead of doing work)

what we currently have in terms of funding "solutions" can best be described as experiments, with little potential for scaling. 

what we need is funding mechanisms that capture the value of OSS (without being extractive) since that's how you get self-sustainable & scalable funding, but there isn't much focus in the space on that, for whatever reason