Yes. As someone who's written popular open source before, I can say that if it made me money, I would've happily invested more time into it. Instead, it just br

Yes. As someone who's written popular open source before, I can say that if it made me money, I would've happily invested more time into it. Instead, it just brought me lots of thankless work, which caused me to abandon it. Funding would go a long way towards making open source better. It doesn't solve everything, but it actually would make a huge difference.