I have been occasionally pushing a oss in government campaign(www.oss4gov.org).
OSS is a perfect match for government software, but it is painful to get a OSS project started and funded by government. Which kind of blocks development as there is only one customer.
So I am trying to argue that there should be a collaborative license that someone kicks off a fully funded project and slowly others who see value come in and take on more slices of the original cost of the project.
The point I am trying to make is that even the current raft of OSS projects are a tiny slice of those that are or should exist, and that we need to look at less private more communal funding models.
We rarely build roads by subscription or toll anymore. Software should be the same
OSS is a perfect match for government software, but it is painful to get a OSS project started and funded by government. Which kind of blocks development as there is only one customer.
So I am trying to argue that there should be a collaborative license that someone kicks off a fully funded project and slowly others who see value come in and take on more slices of the original cost of the project.
The point I am trying to make is that even the current raft of OSS projects are a tiny slice of those that are or should exist, and that we need to look at less private more communal funding models.
We rarely build roads by subscription or toll anymore. Software should be the same