1 year ago

The open source community talks a lot about the problem of aligning incentives. Understandably, an unpaid solo developer has no incentive to fulfill feature requests, to consider stakeholders, to gain a security certification like SOC2 or to fill out diversity forms.

There have been many attempts to address the incentive gaps in this model, including Tidelift, GitHub Sponsors and Gitcoin.

By definition, corporate-backed open source projects don’t conform to this classic model, and most cloud native projects fit in this second category.

For these two groups, the incentives for participation are strongly aligned.