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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 softw
by 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 agoI 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 agoIt's hard to argue that a project having clear leadership and being well funded would be against its best interests.