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by carterthecook
850 days ago
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The idea of creating a bounty system for open source projects is one that has been tried many times over the last decade+. These bounty systems never gain much traction because the incentive structure/economics don't work. The closest we'll get to these bounty systems are for-profit open source software companies, which is pretty good considering that there's a VC-backed open source company for almost any software category you can imagine. |
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Being VC backed means accepting an additional constraint: it has to be remotely controllable by a third party, and if the user revokes trust in that third party, it has to become useless. Otherwise there's nothing to own, nothing to leverage for a return on your investment.
That places some pretty severe limits on how trustworthy such a piece of software can be. There's tremendous value in getting the economics right, even if we haven't yet.