Zach Leatherman :11ty: on Nostr: When thinking about the “Lottery factor” of an open source project you must take ...

When thinking about the “Lottery factor” of an open source project you must take into account the difference between paid and unpaid labor.

I’d argue that 1 paid dev is worth more than 2 unpaid devs. To further complicate things the other side of the coin is that 10 paid devs burning VC runway is worth… you know what—actually I should probably just stop there.