I have been an open source contributor since age 24. I am now 53.
I have seen tremendous contributors get nothing in return except the satisfaction of having helped build something of value (which is huge, mind you).
I have seen opportunists fork, relabel projects as cloud services and tremendously profit in the process.
Since I am mo longer young, or naive, and since I have thought about it for quite some time, I must say it would be good to tie a token offering and a royalty scheme to open source projects. I feel contributors should profit in some measure when big corporations profit from their labor.
I have seen tremendous contributors get nothing in return except the satisfaction of having helped build something of value (which is huge, mind you).
I have seen opportunists fork, relabel projects as cloud services and tremendously profit in the process.
Since I am mo longer young, or naive, and since I have thought about it for quite some time, I must say it would be good to tie a token offering and a royalty scheme to open source projects. I feel contributors should profit in some measure when big corporations profit from their labor.