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Slashdot's Interview with Bruce Perens: How He Hopes to Help 'Post Open' Developers Get Paid
Bruce Perens, original co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has responded to questions from Slashdot readers about a new alternative he's developing that hopefully helps "Post Open" developers get paid. But first, "One of the things that's clear from the Slashdot patter is that people are not ...
How will you stop the management component of this foundation eating all of that money itself so that we can avoid situations like so-called charities where you typically see ~80% of collected monies getting paid out in "administration fees" instead of doing something useful. So, handling security reports will be paid support for the Post Open entity itself, so that it happens immediately, and we might take that out of payment for that particular piece of software - but again, policy not written yet. Hi Bruce, I'm a bit of a fan of some of the stuff that you have done, however, I also think that you've made an admission that launching the OSI as it was done in competition to the free software foundation was bad because it broke [the] chance of having a single solid movement which concentrated on the importance of freedom.
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