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0 pointslukifer4y ago0 comments

"Exit to Community": https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community

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I did not know about that but thanks for sharing. this is what I am talking about though I believe it will have more teeth if VC firms have some sort of an alliance that adopts this model. in-fact if they do that they can dictate the terms of s/w release in more palatable licenses than say GPLv3.

overall I feel a lot more work is needed in establishing some sort of commons framework.

lukiferOP4y ago

> establishing some sort of commons framework

I very much agree, and there are some compelling projects happening in that space as well:

- https://commonsstack.org/

- https://commonsengine.org/

Getting VC firms on-board is a tough sell, though. Their model intrinsically involves getting a greater return than the up-front investment, usually through centralization, quasi-monopoly, and rent-seeking. The low hit-rate of breakthrough successes makes the perverse incentive all the stronger: VCs need unicorn cash-cows, to offset and subsidize the failures. At best, exit-to-community would be a mechanism to cut losses on investments with a small-but-loyal userbase, but without enough revenue to be truly profitable from the VC's perspective.

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