On Saturday, 21 October 2017 at 09:51:41 UTC, Mark wrote:
Honestly, I do not believe that an open-source project, beyond a certain scale, can sustain itself without a consistent income stream.
It is possible, but you need a very modular architecture. The main problem for large open source projects is restructuring/refactoring, which can kill the project.
One example of large open source volunteer based projects are MUDs, but they tend to be very modular in nature.
