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Everything stated about the risks and current deficiencies is true. Meanwhile the OP works for Google on OSS, one of the "untenable" approaches to funding it th
by skeeter2020 5y ago
Everything stated about the risks and current deficiencies is true. Meanwhile the OP works for Google on OSS, one of the "untenable" approaches to funding it that is lamented. Nothing else presented is close to an alternative solution; there's no "ask" that would fix the situation, let alone an attempt to lead by example, so what's the point of this post?
- wutbrodo 5y ago> This is what I hope to see happen more and more: Open Source maintainers graduating to sophisticated counterparties who send invoices for "support and sponsorship" on letterhead, and big companies developing procedures to assess, approve, and pay them as a matter of routine so that they can get what they need from the ecosystem. In what way is this not an ask?