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Dylan Beattie

2022-07-02 11:39:19


@dustinmoris @david_whitney wrote a really interesting post along these lines a few months ago, including the suggestion that companies should be able to pay for open source via their Azure/AWS/GCP bill, which I think is a really, really good idea.

davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2021/12/1…

(screenshot of four paragraphs from a blog post):</p><p>A step up from that? I want to pay for libraries that I use in my Azure bill. In my AWS bill. In my GCP bill.</p><p>While I’ve railed against large organisations leveraging open-source throughout, large organisations aren’t fundamentally bad, immoral, or evil, I just believe they operate in their best interest. The first platform that lets me sell software components can have their cut too. That’s fair. That’s help.</p><p>I think this would unlock a whole category of software sales that just doesn’t exist trivially in the market today. Imagine if instead of trying to work through some asinine procurement process, you could just add NuGet, or NPM, or Cargo packages and it’ll be accounted for and charged appropriately by your cloud platform vendor over a private package feed.</p><p>This is the best thing a vendor could do to support creators – they could create a real marketplace. One that’s sustainable for everyone inside of it.

@Dustin Moris Gorski @David Whitney
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