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> Open source projects need donations in talented engineer time, not in money. I'm willing to believe that most open source projects could make substantial imp
by adekok 11y ago
> Open source projects need donations in talented engineer time, not in money.
I'm willing to believe that most open source projects could make substantial improvements if they had funding. See how Patreon has made a huge difference for Youtube videographers.
- lazaroclapp 11y agoFor a lot of large open source projects, funding may come in the form of companies paying their engineers to dedicate a significant amount of their time to working on existing open source projects. Or even open source projects that are part of a company's "products" (e.g. https://facebook.github.io/react/ https://facebook.github.io/react/ , http://llvm.org/ http://llvm.org/ ). Plenty of startups that use open source spend time improving open source projects (although, naturally, focused on the features they care to use, given how precious of a resource developer time is for a startup).