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by AlexandrB
1583 days ago
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I disagree. Monetization will ruin open source. The incentives w/o monetization are actually well aligned: the contributors are often the most avid users - whether private or commercial. Adding money into the mix will invite participants whose only interest is earning tokens. This will probably mean that more OSS code gets written, but - as with the open web - financial incentives will invite bad actors to game the system and the signal to noise ratio in OSS contributions will decrease. A good case study in this is what happened when Steam tried to add monetization to Skyrim mods[1]. [1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements... |
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