I'm not sure if Open Source is broken, so much as the expectation to monetize anything is guaranteed. Most new businesses fail too.
Just because you've created something doesn't mean it'll always be monetizable. I'd argue that if income was the expectation, grinding year after year at the same thing with repeated failure is a mistake. Doesn't matter if it's writing software, or selling widgets on a street corner, not every possible idea will succeed in that way.
It’s a failure of stakeholders to be good stewards. This sort of on the fly patching service should be a part of browser maintenance. There should be a collaborative polyfill.js service like Dennis described or The Financial Times has, maintained by Microsoft, google, safari, Mozilla, and web standards orgs. Any website that needs to call or should be able to for free.
Legacy support has become atrocious and it shouldn’t fall to web developers to deal with, because the end result is what Bloomberg does, and a shitty experience for the consumer.
His work also ended up being so good, it effectively eliminated completion and the need for businesses on either end of the web (browser/site) to take it upon themselves to make things better.
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I'm not sure if Open Source is broken, so much as the expectation to monetize anything is guaranteed. Most new businesses fail too.
Just because you've created something doesn't mean it'll always be monetizable. I'd argue that if income was the expectation, grinding year after year at the same thing with repeated failure is a mistake. Doesn't matter if it's writing software, or selling widgets on a street corner, not every possible idea will succeed in that way.
It’s a failure of stakeholders to be good stewards. This sort of on the fly patching service should be a part of browser maintenance. There should be a collaborative polyfill.js service like Dennis described or The Financial Times has, maintained by Microsoft, google, safari, Mozilla, and web standards orgs. Any website that needs to call or should be able to for free.
Legacy support has become atrocious and it shouldn’t fall to web developers to deal with, because the end result is what Bloomberg does, and a shitty experience for the consumer.
His work also ended up being so good, it effectively eliminated completion and the need for businesses on either end of the web (browser/site) to take it upon themselves to make things better.