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https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
I'm an 'outsider', but from from the outside the Material For MkDocs Project looks like a very well managed open source project.
Martin Donath's project uses a 'sponsorware' release strategy to generate donations.
From my vantage point it seems to be working pretty well.
Yes, MkDocs is an example of someone that's using a platform to good advantage. But the advantage they are using it for is to sell an excludable good: "new features are first exclusively released to sponsors."[1] Nothing wrong with that, but this constitutes "jumping through hoops" according to the view laid out in my post. Can we get to no hoops? That's the intriguing challenge!
[1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/
> it will still suffer from the 'tragedy of the commons'.
Fortunately, we have lots of great research on how to avoid tragedies of the commons:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521405998
I aim to explain how this applies to Open Source in a future post, which I'm tracking here:
https://github.com/chadwhitacre/openpath/issues/14