Bold Ideas for Funding OSS

BOLD IDEAS FOR FUNDING OSS THE GITHUB STAR REGISTRY: NAME A STAR AFTER SOMEONE SPECIAL! THIS COST HOW MUCH? MERGE CONFLICT PAY-PER-VIEW! OH! THAT’S A BRUTAL DIFF! I DON’T SEE HOW HE COMES BACK FROM THIS ONE OBFUSCATE YOUR CODE, THEN PAYWALL YOUR DOCS STUMPED YET? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR ONLYFUNCTIONS™ REPLACE OSS FOUNDATIONS WITH MLM SCHEMES ... THEN IF EACH OF YOUR MAINTAINER SIGNS UP TEN NEW MAINTAINERS... AMAZON SPONSORS ALL OSS PROJECTS IN PERPETUITY YOU WORK FOR US NOW. HERE’S YOUR PEE BOTTLE. STRAIGHT-UP BRIBERY I’LL GIVE YOU $50K TO MERGE MY MALICIOUS PR. BUDDY, FOR $0 YOU CAN TAKE OVER THIS WHOLE CURSED PROJECT.

A six-panel comic presents absurd ways to fund open-source software, including paid GitHub stars, pay-per-view merge conflicts, paywalled documentation, MLM recruitment, corporate sponsorship, and outright bribery. The joke satirizes the financial pressures and exploitative business models surrounding open-source projects, exaggerating them into ridiculous schemes. It is shared as a reaction to questionable funding proposals or the grim realities of maintaining OSS. EN: A six-panel comic presents absurd ways to fund open-source software, including paid GitHub stars, pay-per-view merge conflicts, paywalled documentation, MLM recruitment, corporate sponsorship, and outright bribery. The joke satirizes the financial pressures and exploitative business models surrounding open-source projects, exaggerating them into ridiculous schemes. It is shared as a reaction to questionable funding proposals or the grim realities of maintaining OSS.

• @gentoomemes / 11546 2024-05-29