Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame - eviltoast
  • J Lou@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    What you are looking for is some sort of variant of quadratic funding. It is a mechanism that is specifically designed to overcome the free rider problem that public goods like FOSS suffer from. It solves it by matching private contributions to these public goods using a special formula that aligns incentives, so that everyone that knowingly benefits from a public good has an economic incentive to contribute to it because more contributors leads to a higher level of matching