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Quality of Software Costs Money--Heartbleed Was Free.

The article focuses on ways to raise funding for free and open source software (FOSS). Topics discussed include improving the quality of FOSS by ensuring that developers are funded properly, a call for companies to add FOSS support to their corporate social responsibilities, and software projects' e...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 8; pp. 49 - 52
Main Author: KAMP, POUL-HENNING
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2014
Subjects:
Open source software
Computer software development
Freeware (Computer software)
Computer software developers
Crowd funding
Microfinance
Economics
Finance
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on ways to raise funding for free and open source software (FOSS). Topics discussed include improving the quality of FOSS by ensuring that developers are funded properly, a call for companies to add FOSS support to their corporate social responsibilities, and software projects' establishment of foundations to raise money and hire developers. Also mentioned are the author's experience with crowdfunding, the benefits of having fewer but larger sponsors rather than individual sponsors, and the features of the Varnish Moral License (VML) funding model.