Comment Easy to police, hard to fund. (Score 1) 101
It's easy to police, to be funded a project must have a open mailing list, and every finacial transation between the project and the escrow company is sent to the list.
Escrow companies should only be companies that have a stake in the OSS movement, where your credability is everything.
The trick is paying the escrow companies for the cost associated with escrowing the funds, the bank account, the checks, the time...
Something like copyleft might work where each project has a t-shirt that copyleft sells, and in exchange for the business brought to copyleft by the project, they're willing to escrow funds for the project.
Escrow companies should only be companies that have a stake in the OSS movement, where your credability is everything.
The trick is paying the escrow companies for the cost associated with escrowing the funds, the bank account, the checks, the time...
Something like copyleft might work where each project has a t-shirt that copyleft sells, and in exchange for the business brought to copyleft by the project, they're willing to escrow funds for the project.
