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@Dialectician @anttipeltola That's why patents were invented. They are far from perfect but the idea is not bad: "you can get the business benefit of your research for a few years, but then you have to share it with the rest of the community"
That model is not terrible, it's the implementation that so far is lacking
@anttipeltola I am an open source maintainer myself. Even on some projects with significant funding. “Volunteer work” is not a sustainable model. I maintain OSS software in my spare time and when I have the energy to do so. But that’s not what pays my bills and I honestly know zero OSS maintainers that are able to live decently purely on donations
@anttipeltola I share your values, but the issue in that plan is that big moonshots and major technical improvements need multi year huge investments at loss. And that requires a company with a big enough budget that it can afford that loss.
So if we don’t want big techs we need to find another model to fund big moonshots.
