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There is the other side of this too - open source projects were passion projects, some grew big, some stayed niche. In nostr lots of this was skewed by grants - people building projects because of grants and then abandoning them when the grants run out.

Sure, open source has tons of funding issues cuz you have libraries that are supporting entire ecosystems with barely surviving maintainers. But theres also tons of projects that exist purely because people are pursuing "open source grant collector" as a carreer choice, not because they desperately want to build that specific thing for themselves

Francis Mars 2d ago

I agree, grant chasing skews incentives in OSS, humans naturally respond to these incentives. And while survivor bias is real, it’s great that some of them actually make it.

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aljaz 2d ago

also look at the past - lots of original cypherpunks were financially independent, from dotcom boom to running businesses, they had the means to do what they wanted.

Francis Mars 2d ago

that’s the thought I was exploring in the post, thinking through the human side of OSS.