> They aren't really deriving any benefit out of the work they do on CocoaPods
I don't think working on CocoaPods is an altruistic endeavor. I imagine (know) that some of the cocoapods folks are app developers and ostensibly CocoaPods makes developing applications easier.
Side Note: its not a tragedy of the commons. Github owns the infrastructure and they enforced their private property rights by rate limiting a group of users that were disproportionately using resources. It is a collective action problem for CP users.
I don't think working on CocoaPods is an altruistic endeavor. I imagine (know) that some of the cocoapods folks are app developers and ostensibly CocoaPods makes developing applications easier.
Side Note: its not a tragedy of the commons. Github owns the infrastructure and they enforced their private property rights by rate limiting a group of users that were disproportionately using resources. It is a collective action problem for CP users.