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The reality is: most companies are taking economic advantage of the generous spirit of open source developers. That needs to stop. SPONSORING OPEN SOURCE DEVEL
by mwattsun 5y ago
The reality is: most companies are taking economic advantage of the generous spirit of open source developers. That needs to stop.
SPONSORING OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS
Rich Hickey - December 15, 2020
https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/12/15/sponsoring-open-source-developers https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/12/15/sponsoring-open-source...
HN Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436335
- smashah 5y agoSponsorship is not a panacea unfortunately as corporate use of a project is not proportional to the maintainership burden. Hopefully the industry can fix this one day.
- hawkesnest 5y agoIf you could even get it! Think about all the millions of dollars dealing with the Log4J issues last December. How much has that prompted sponsorship of any logging libraries by the affected companies? Not much, from what I've seen.