Weighing open source project funding options, from taxes to anarchy
Justin Warren is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine, a technology consulting and analyst firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Until 2023, he was a board member at Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit national organization representing Internet users. At KubeCon North America last year, he asked a press conference panel of enterprise IT leaders what they were doing to compensate open source maintainers "so they don't starve to death."
A self-described "filthy socialist," Warren favors a tax or tax-like system for funding open source libraries that are widely used but not…
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