Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe

Items tagged opensource, jacobkaplanmoss

Filters: opensource × jacobkaplanmoss × Sorted by date


Paying people to work on open source is good actually. In which Jacob expands his widely quoted (including here) pithy toot about how quick people are to pick holes in paid open source contributor situations into a satisfyingly comprehensive rant. This is absolutely worth your time—there’s so much I could quote from here, but I’m going to go with this:

“Many, many more people should be getting paid to write free software, but for that to happen we’re going to have to be okay accepting impure or imperfect mechanisms.” # 17th February 2024, 1:42 am

“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”

Maintainer: *introduces commercial features*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *works for a large tech co*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *takes investment*
“Not like that”

Jacob Kaplan-Moss # 12th February 2024, 5:18 am

Twenty questions about the GPL. Jacob kicks off a fascinating discussion about GPLv3. # 13th July 2009, 11:59 pm

FLOSS Weekly 34: Django. Randal Schwartz interviewed Jacob Kaplan-Moss at OSCON for the consistently excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast. # 27th July 2008, 9:47 am