[richhickey]

Companies still compete to attract and retain top devs. What if those devs insisted that the companies they work for sponsor open source, and prefer sponsoring companies when making decisions about where they'll work? If companies spent just somewhere near 1% of what they spend on devs on open source sponsorship they could transform the ecosystem. As a result they'd have more and better open source to leverage. That's before you consider the risk mitigation of ensuring stable suppliers.

[munificent]

Yeah, I don't disagree. Just to be clear I want to re-emphasize that I applaud you or any other organization that unilaterally takes steps like this. It is a good thing.

I just always think about the indirect incentives our choices make in the broader ecosystem. Some systemic problems can be solved by individuals incrementally making different choices, but I think some require larger organization and coordination. And, to some degree (but not enough to cancel out the merit of an individual moral choice) a choice to do the right thing can actually make it easier for others to exploit more.