I think it's worse in Bitcoin specifically because the point of Bitcoin is disintermediation, relying on a software vendor in Bitcoin is tantamount to relying on a financial service 

Typical foss sustainability models are either SaaS or support contracts

Sustainability in Bitcoin needs to go past the monetary layer logic, which increases the scope for projects with sustainability in mind... The monetary layer tools must be a distribution model for *other* things

justin_shocknet

The only thing more expensive than oss is proprietary software

**Is Open Source Worth the Investment?** https://stacker.news/items/1446880

0xbitcoiner

You'd have to be crazy to go years out on a limb building out enterprise-class, hardened solutions, that don't make asinine promises for speculative use-cases, and if done well customers retain the option to use it without being monetized

That's the fundamental problem. Reality of FOSS?

bitcoin

AskSN

Yes, we need "builders" all right! (Giacomo)

k00b

>  You'd have to be crazy to go years out on a limb building out enterprise-class, hardened solutions, that don't make asinine promises for speculative use-cases, and if done well customers retain the option to use it without being monetized

That's the fundamental problem. Reality of FOSS?