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The missing open source funding is sitting in plain sight But these large companies do massively fund open source. They just do it by having their engineers cr
by lacker 7y ago
The missing open source funding is sitting in plain sight
But these large companies do massively fund open source. They just do it by having their engineers create open source software, rather than paying money to independent engineers.
Kubernetes, TypeScript, Go, Tensorflow, React, Angular, these open source libraries have had millions of dollars of engineer time put into them, and that cost was primarily paid by large tech companies.
- benologist 7y agoThat's a tiny, luxurious little subset of open source. Open source is also 500,000 other projects being worked on in parallel from which FAANG are waiting to exploit anything of interest. Underneath their open source software is a chain of open source dependencies all the way down to the bare metal where the developers are not even considered.