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by mwattsun 1556 days ago
The reality is: most companies are taking economic advantage of the generous spirit of open source developers. That needs to stop.

SPONSORING OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS Rich Hickey - December 15, 2020 https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/12/15/sponsoring-open-source...

HN Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436335

1 comments

Sponsorship is not a panacea unfortunately as corporate use of a project is not proportional to the maintainership burden. Hopefully the industry can fix this one day.
If you could even get it! Think about all the millions of dollars dealing with the Log4J issues last December. How much has that prompted sponsorship of any logging libraries by the affected companies? Not much, from what I've seen.