[bmitch3020]

Absolutely. I say that being an OSS maintainer is a job, which can easily become a full time job, where the pay is often non-existent. If you have a separate full time job, you now have to choose:

1. Work two jobs until you burn out.

2. Quit your paying job and hope you have you don't go broke.

3. Scale back or quit maintaining OSS projects.

I think companies, governments, and societies could do a better job funding this work. But since this is a "tragedy of the commons" problem, I'm not holding my breath that this will happen before the public experiences a lot more pain from failures.