Funding open source projects
Mark Shuttleworth, founder/CEO of Canonical, has a blog entry about the difficulties of funding open source projects. My take is that, in some respects, open source projects are no different from any other software project: many of them fail. In particular, projects will fail if they do not clearly focus on (in Mark's words) solving the unique problems first. For example, a version-control tool ought to have a friendly web interface, but this is not an essential or urgent problem. Solving it will not tell you whether you're on the right track or not. For a new design it is good to first tackle the problems which have the potential to falsify your model.
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