I’m not sure if he’s completely serious about the roads analogy. IMO roads are funded like OSS, but in OSS we just skip the whole elected officials part and go straight to oligarchy.

In other terms the oligarchs (Google, the auto industry) put money into projects that they directly benefit them (k8s, roads) while sidelining popular projects that don’t (public transit, $your_favorite_OSS).

I don’t really see the advantage of moving the gatekeepers from a set of corporate engineers to an “elected” group of people who will likely be completely made up of people who work at those same corporate jobs who have the time to do OSS politics.

Maybe there is another way, but this post is really critical of the “roads” analogy.