Loadsharers: Funding the Load-Bearing Internet Person

Posted by bob on Aug 8, 2019 4:32 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Eric S. Raymond
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The internet has a sustainability problem. Many of its critical services depend on the dedication of unpaid volunteers, because they can't be monetized and thus don't have any revenue stream for the maintainers to live on. I'm talking about services like DNS, time synchronization, crypto libraries—software without which the net and the browser you're using couldn't function.

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