Kudos to Facebook and Stripe for stepping up. Either these individuals are funded or some company comes along and acquires them and they lose their independence

Kudos to Facebook and Stripe for stepping up. Either these individuals are funded or some company comes along and acquires them and they lose their independence. We need to urgently find a sustainable way for individuals to support open source developers or accountability and relationship with end users will continue to diminish. There must also be ways to gently encourage successful startups to contribute as now it seems they use a whole bunch of open source software and simply forget about it once successful, which is not a sutainable model.