November 21, 2019

Recommended Viewing: Russell Keith-Magee at PyCon Australia flash back to 2015

In Money, Money, Money — Writing software, in a rich (wo)man’s world, Django core team member and Django foundation head Russell Keith-Magee:

• confronted the need for money to fund free software

• talked through the problems of popularized business models

• touched on dual licensing as a model without common drawbacks

• noted issues peculiar to small projects

• floatsed the radical idea of a distribution system that makes paying package developers, and package dependencies’ developers, easy

The talk appears to date back to 2015, the same year I began work on License Zero. I watched through for the first time today.