Defining Fairness in the Use of Open Source

The ground you’re covering overlaps some with work we did at Sustain earlier this year, and in subsequent working groups, to define some proposed Principles of Authentic Participation as well as a loosely defined transparency goal and some proposed Goals for Corporate Accountability (shown at the top of the transparency goal link).

I’d be interested in seeing how you’re working to calculate business value realized from dependency analysis, as I’ve been doing similar work. I don’t see anything on the site or on GitHub about how you’re proposing to approach the problem. Is there anything you’d be willing to share?

I’m also reminded of the move made by Citus Data to donate 1% of their equity to PostgreSQL non-profits. That was timely, given their acquisition by Microsoft a few months later.

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