Interview Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who quit coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the software world, and he's proposing something that could shake up the open source community.
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Open source funding is an ongoing hot topic. During a chat at Civo's recent Navigate event, Hightower joked with us how companies were happy to spend big on cloud subscriptions but tended to skimp when it came to paying a comparatively token amount for open source.
However, open source developers are demanding reimbursement, and Hightower has some interesting ideas about how that could be accomplished. "I think we've all become a bit complacent," he told The Register.
“If you think about the current model ten years ago… We'll let the startup funded by a VC handle it: they'll pay the developers, fix the problems, deal with security compliance and deal with the integration work.
