There is a history here. Please read: 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http://clojure.org/funding https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http:

There is a history here. Please read: 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http://clojure.org/funding https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http://clojure.or... 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140704050611/http://clojure.org/funding https://web.archive.org/web/20140704050611/http://clojure.or... My own interpretation: programmer culture has such problems that someone actually considered corporate funding healthier than user donations.