[dtaht]

One of my great sadnesses about the long term support of FOSS was that the great redhat experiment of letting open source contributors into the IPO´s strike price, has never been repeated. For a tiny amount of re-investment into the commons like this, it would have been a better, far less scary and undermaintained world.

I really felt then, that misunderstood, and underappreciated, complicated, dedicated creators of really great code, would have a floor under them from all the companies that used it and did not understand it.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/late-ipo-change-left...

RHAT going public and sharing the IPO strike prices with the devs they based their success on, was a great day for the prospect of an indirect financial return on years of craftsmanship and care.

I hope one day, the idea finds new life.