Your comment (and some others) have me imagining an alternate reality where the vatican runs the equivalent of github and all major FOSS infrastructure is maintained by religious orders. (There's probably a controversy where the catholic and islamic GPL equivalent licenses are incompatible for inane reasons.)

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ajb 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You joke, but, leaving religion out of it, it's plausible that if the want long lived infrastructure that's maintained with integrity, it may be that tithing of some description is part of the solution. Currently the closest we have is patron, but most of those are still part of hustle culture rather than the supporters feeling a long term obligation.

	▲	ChrisMarshallNY 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I know that there’s a pretty overwhelming antithesis about religion, hereabouts (there’s a lot of valid reasons, but, in my experience, it tends to originate from personal animus), but some things that you get from organized religion, are a sense of community, a very long view, and fairly strict rules about personal integrity and behavior. There’s a lot less of the cutthroat competition, than you’ll see in industry and academia, and many folks plant trees that they will never use for shade. Personally, I’m not religious, but have many close friends that are, and I see this mindset in action. I also worked for an old-fashioned Japanese company, which had many of the same features. Even though many people see these as conservative (or weak) traits, they actually work well, for development of new things. Big things take time, and teams. Time is supplied by people taking the long view, and making long-term plans, and teams benefit from people not stabbing each other in the back, sublimating personal goals, in favor of those of the collective, and trusting each other, and their management.
	▲	skuzye 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The long term obligation for them is created by the very thing you wanted to leave out.