Re: [xml] Resuming maintenance

[Borden <borden_c tutanota com>]

12 Jan 2022, 10:24 by xml gnome org:
> Personally, I think the main problem is funding. The pool of competent programmers willing to spend months 
> of their time to work on a rather outdated code base implementing mostly legacy technology for free is tiny 
> or even non-existent. It's really the large corporations who could make a difference by sponsoring OSS 
> maintenance directly. I'm sure you can find people like me who would work on OSS at a discount, but not 
> without any monetary compensation.
>
> Nick
It's refreshing to have someone speak so honestly about the economics of open source development and the 
reality that, no, one just cannot fork the source code and rewrite it to do what they want.

As a money guy (as opposed to a programming guy), I've thought for years about how to crowdfund open source 
projects. I have an idea that, at least mathematically, works. But I don't have nearly enough knowledge about 
software and digital infrastructure to know whether it's feasible to implement or what would be involved.

If anyone's interested, I'm happy to talk about it off list. Waiting for corporate charity to help doesn't 
seem like a workable long-term solution.