"Now, if a half of those projects decide to spend 1-2-3 human days to go through the pain of upgrading to the next major version, how much do you think this cos

"Now, if a half of those projects decide to spend 1-2-3 human days to go through the pain of upgrading to the next major version, how much do you think this costs the industry collectively? [...] We're talking about a mind blowing $20-40M in industry wide damages. Let me repeat this for you. This mess costed us collectively tenths of millions of dollars to sort it out." So if a mere botched release costs the users 20 to 40 millions, how comes there's no way to move money toward the freedom software developers so they may hire testers and quality assurance people (and perhaps pay themselves so they can develop during the day, instead of tired, after work) and thus avoid botching releases?