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This is the sort of thing Google could just chuck a chunk of money at, it would be less than a rounding error to them.
by stuaxo 3y ago
This is the sort of thing Google could just chuck a chunk of money at, it would be less than a rounding error to them.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoNot to leap at defending Google or any other disproportionate OSS consumer, but the moment you apply this logic consistently, those costs add up to > revenue in most scenarios I could imagine. There is a way to make it sustainable, but it’s not likely to be a voluntary action by any individual actor.
- jsnell 3y agoGoogle is one of the three companies explicitly listed in the message as sponsoring the general fund of this library. What did it get them? Just people like you complaining that they aren't donating more. Why not at least complain about the large tech companies that aren't sponsoring at all, or only sponsoring specific project work? [0] From https://libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Sponsors https://libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Sponsors it looks like a bunch of companies have sponsored specific projects, but from the message it sounds like these projects have been basically underbid by the library maintainer, and that's been part of the problem.