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1. Patrick Masson (massonpj@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:43 JST Patrick Masson

   • OW2

   Starting session (framed as a debate) on funding #OpenSource software projects and/or foundations at @ow2's #OW2con.

   Interesting process were those who speak, then point to someone else from the audience to take their spot on the panel.

   #edtech #oss

   • Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:39 JST Simon Brooke

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     • Martijn

     @chaosmonkey @massonpj This is why I use the @fsf' General Public License #GPL on most of my projects. I build them so that other people can use them, yes -- but I don't build them so that companies can lock them into proprietary products and then gouge profits out of them.

     #SoftwareLibre
     #OpenSource
     #FreeAsInFreedom

     https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

   • Martijn (chaosmonkey@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:40 JST Martijn

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     @simon_brooke @massonpj @ow2 More and more I find myself about true free open source vs "other open source". (#Corporate) #greed has companies / people to (ab)use #OSS devs' time to develop their (in the end) #commercial #products. #Rugpulling #licenses from under the #community.

     #Opensource #funding is important, but it should be about:

     "how do we allow those devs to live a decent life while they provide good, usefull & truly free open source software."

     True #FOSS is indeed about #gifting.

     Free Software Foundation repeated this.
   • Martijn (chaosmonkey@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:41 JST Martijn

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     • Simon Brooke
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     @simon_brooke @massonpj @ow2 That is a wonderful summary! Hear, hear! I fully agree.

     #foss4ever

   • Patrick Masson (massonpj@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:42 JST Patrick Masson

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     The open source software produced in #highered is a "by-project" [by-product] of their primary work (research, teaching and learning, academic/administrative computing); the #OpenSource software produced by companies--and many "projects" waiting for investors--is a "product."

     The sustainability, support, and contributor models (and motivations) are thus all different... very different.

     @ow2 #OW2con

   • Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:42 JST Simon Brooke

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     • OW2

     @massonpj @ow2 Most #OpenSource software is produced by software engineers and enthusiasts in their spare time as an act of curiosity, generosity, or social conscience: a contribution to making the world a (slightly) better place.

     It is neither 'product' nor 'by-product' but conscious #gift -- and this is a good thing.

     Viewing open source as something produced primarily by industry and academia is not merely wrong: it's missing the point entirely.

     #GiftEconomy

   • Patrick Masson (massonpj@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 23:59:43 JST Patrick Masson

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     I am struck by how outside the "norm" education-derived #opensource projects are, related to funding.

     Everyone so far has a commercial orientation, aligned with typical corporate business and revenue models. As such they are emphasizing investors, customers, start-ups, etc.

     Also of note is a, perhaps European, emphasis on goverment funding.

     I don't think the education sector and the #OSS institutions that produce it, can take advantage of these approaches.

     @ow2 #OW2con