How does this obligation attach?

Posted Oct 12, 2024 7:20 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: How does this obligation attach? by rcampos
Parent article: The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

> Am I missing something?

Yes. Branding.

People pay higher prices for crappier products, because of the brand name.

This "open source pledge" needs to be paid for out of the *advertising* budget, and the brand managers need to be told to make good use of the money so spent ...

Whether that will ever happen ...

Cheers,
Wol

How does this obligation attach?

Posted Oct 12, 2024 14:30 UTC (Sat) by rcampos (subscriber, #59737) [Link] (1 responses)

Interesting. But for that to work, then, there would need to be a good social acceptance that influences people making the $choice$ to prefer companies that fund open-source, I guess?

It seems like easy to get in the same issues as sustainability, like "we do X, certified by Y" and it doesn't really mean something useful. Maybe a slightly better problem to have, if we gained social acceptance... but unsure how to turn that into quality funding.

How does this obligation attach?

Posted Oct 12, 2024 19:49 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

After I posted that, I thought "make it moderately easy to get brone/silver with the engineering budget" and then you use the advertising budget to transition to gold. We just need to make sure it's seen as a "good thing" to help provide the public good ... ime companies want to pay for support, we just need to make sure that support goes to the right places.

Cheers,
Wol