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Open source infrastructure *must* be a publicly funded service, and funders need to support maintenance – not just new feature development 📣

This is on our minds this week in the wake of the #xz news, and as we continue to seek funding to support #Matrix.

Read the latest from project lead, @matthew: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

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Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
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Osma A
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Funding features, not maintenance is part of most commercial contracts as well. Commercial software vendors make it a built-in requirements that you have to accept a maintenance agreement in order to be able to request feature development, and in exchange offer SLA's to their customers. No MoD in the world would categorically refuse an SLA - they'll negotiate hard on one, though.
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Simon Phipps
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I have been pitching an approach to DG CNECT based on bug fixing rather than feature focus, but not got much traction. Cascading funding is definitely part of the solution though.

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@Matthew Hodgson @smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
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ok, many people could *maybe* be convinced by this argument. But what is almost always lacking on this subject are the funding criteria. Most FOSS projects are just playgrounds for inexperienced developers. And even the established projects lack many of the components of a proper organizational structure, with professional UX designers, customer service, lawyers, professional managers etc. Not all FOSS projects deserve funding.
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