> Often this results in them becoming non-open-source, for example, Elasticsearch. It's important to note that Elastic was a VC funded company that is now a li

> Often this results in them becoming non-open-source, for example, Elasticsearch. It's important to note that Elastic was a VC funded company that is now a listed public company trying to make open source maintainership their businesses as a high growth business. This is different from being a sustained maintainer making OK to decent compensation for their work. The type of business matters. Is it high growth (or VC which is high growth) or is it consistent maintaining. > These are also often under-maintained. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not. Are there any stats on this? > I highly suspect the majority of them only do electrical work to make a living. My point is that they don't ONLY DO electrical work. They have legal businesses, they do invoices, they handle accounting and money comes and goes, etc. They don't get to forget how businesses and finances happen while hoping for donations.