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Considering the resources that it takes to maintain these projects it’s best they have some serious backing and not just a few volunteers.

• entropea 7y ago
  Lets have the interests of giant for-profit corporations backing our open source projects, that will surely end up in the best interests for free and open software!
  • dickeytk 7y ago
    I was the creator of a reasonably popular framework. I was only able to build it because the company I worked for had interest in me working on it nearly full time. Now that I’m not there anymore, I can no longer devote the time to continue maintaining it. Luckily people have taken my place, but if that company didn’t devote resources it wouldn’t exist and/or be unmaintained. There is no way you could expect unpaid volunteers to take on that amount of work.
  • SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
    It's hard to argue that a project having clear leadership and being well funded would be against its best interests.