@arcfide I've also spent some time imagining a system where you declared the "credits owed" of the other work you built on, then if someone credits your work, some of that credit goes to the people you credited etc, etc. I'm not sure if there is any suitable payment technology available for this. Doing something like this with ordinary banking would be pretty hard to get legally compliant, and cryptocurrency doesn't solve the problem because it can't do micropayments.

I'm not really even sure if that is the answer, because the value you can create with open source isn't scarce. money is designed for scarse things... what ever these "open source points" might be should they really look like money?