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

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

>  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?

siggy47

But not for fancy, novel, shining "use cases": for trivial, boring, basic-bitch ones, which are still shitty!

long-enough attention span to focus on real, boring things

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

bitcoin

AskSN

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

k00b

I think he hits it early

> But not for fancy, novel, shining "use cases": for trivial, boring, basic-bitch ones, which are still shitty!

"Builders" ran out of bad ideas

> long-enough attention span to focus on real, boring things

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