My understanding of this talk is:
- Evan wishes to transcend the law of
capitalist accumulationgetting Jeff’d - $400,000,000 would be a good start (kickstarter?)
- Finally, establish a legal trust (or blockchain smart contract) for the distribution of
elm-backendfor a price until some other un-jeffable sustainable model is built to fund it as an open source project
Jokes aside, Elm seems to be the victim of two things: its own success, and also Evan’s extremely long-term thinking! It seems like there’s no one-size fits all model, and unfortunately you just have to find creative ways to grow and innovate without getting Jeff’d. The sponsorship from NoRedInk was great, and there seems to be at least one company doing something very similar to what elm-backend aims to do, maybe Evan should speak to them?
P.S. Someone on Slack mentioned Open Collective to sponsor free/libre software work, but I’d like to offer Snowdrift as well!