6. The ZeroMQ Community
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Chapter 6 - The ZeroMQ Community # People sometimes ask me what’s so special about ZeroMQ. My standard answer is that ZeroMQ is arguably the best answer we have to the vexing question of “How do we make the distributed software that the 21st century demands?” But more than that, ZeroMQ is special because of its community. This is ultimately what separates the wolves from the sheep. There are three main open source patterns.
  • itappearsthat
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    5 months ago

    FOSS contribution supported by paid consulting for that FOSS component is fairly common these days. It's the business model followed by Igalia, which AFAIK is the largest worker-owned cooperative in the tech sector (150ish employees, been operating since early 2000s). Also a decent number of contributors have single-member LLCs (or legal equivalent in their country) for this purpose.