February 16, 2019
Replied to a post on motherboard.vice.com :
One solution; treat open source like a VC. Companies take a "FOSS/FLOSS" round -- in exchange for using community property firms would put ~7% of equity in escrow, that would be used exclusively to fund these efforts. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-s...
Working on something similar only based on multi stakeholder cooperatives backed by investor cooperatives. Early bootstrapping targets will be long tail opportunities VCs don’t bother with. Built in carve outs of profits donated to FOSS projects. #JobsAct
Co-op Source, Mar 15 2019 on twitter.com