| So we are looking at something like - quadratic voting for issues to be fixed, - buy votes by putting money into escrow / promissory fund - openly available like patreon The only problem is amazingly, how do you agree that the job has been done, to a quality standard you agree with. I think this is the very core and essence of Coase's theory of the firm. It is management of a firm that decides on quality. To this extent Maintainers are management. It's worth pointing out that as software eats the world the majority of management must come from judging quality of software produced - something current management structures are not setup for. Ultimately you cannot contract for specific work in a market - you have to wait for the market to provide speculative development that you then "purchase". Weirdly Open Source Software is a market failure ... (I suspect there might be a future market of standard contracts between (business defined) micro-services - you could use an open source piece of software that fulfills a micro-service requirement - and because the contracts are standardised the market would be huge, swappable and vibrant. |