https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/turn-failed-sustainability-startups-into-fertile-soil-humus-for-new-ones-by-making-them-open-source/2018/01/05 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/turn-failed-sustainability-startups-into-fertile-soil-humus-for-new-ones-by-making-them-open-source/2018/01/05/comment-page-1#comment-1584836 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:50:15 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=69117#comment-1584836 Nice idea here are some more things to think about.
– Most startup code is written quickly with no intention of sharing it, so improving it to the point where it is good enough to be useful to anybody else could be more than just window-dressing.
– Most code written that isn’t intended to be open source can be very specific about certain things, so again, it might not be so trivial to convert it to something another coder would want to touch.
– A great deal of code being written by startups now will go out of date very quickly.
– Anyone administering a fund would have to decide how much some code was worth, based on the cost of preparing it, and the likelihood of it being used.
– It could be that the failed startups could end up nourishing large corporations rather than other startups. Large corporations have more resources to go out there looking for innovation they can buy.
I think a smarter idea, not comparable to this idea, is if all startups were to write code of an open source quality in the first place. Then they could donate their code as part of a socially responsible liquidation. Most of that code is on github, so it is already available, but perhaps it needs curating and promoting as a resource?

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