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"I have yet to come across a single popular Open Source project that thrives while being funded by private individuals, small and medium size companies." The o
by mewsen 3y ago
"I have yet to come across a single popular Open Source project that thrives while being funded by private individuals, small and medium size companies."
The only oss project that is funded by private individuals that comes up in my head is GrapheneOS, it has over 500 sponsors on Github.
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoAlso Blender. Best user-facing example out there IMO.
- rafaelmn 3y agoWasnt blender funded by government grants (although very small IIRC) and Epic ?
- j16sdiz 3y agoAccording to the annual report[1], 2021 2022 Epic Mega Grant € 334,609 16% € 87,540 4% Dev. Fund patron € 687,896 32% € 1,073,684 49% Dev. Fund corporate € 314,546 15% € 218,000 10% Dev. Fund individual € 364,032 17% € 423,837 20% Blender Market € 126,502 6% € 155,673 7% Google Summer of Code € 2,649 0% € 2,003 0% Other large donations € 148,486 7% € 160,819 7% [1] https://download.blender.org/foundation/Blender-Foundation-Annual-Report-2022-v2.pdf https://download.blender.org/foundation/Blender-Foundation-A...
- Groxx 3y agoI think GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, ffmpeg all fall into this category too. Quite possibly a majority of GPL does.
- birdyrooster 3y agoAsahi Linux is another good example
- xyst 3y agoGoDot currently receives €50,521 per month https://fund.godotengine.org/ https://fund.godotengine.org/
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoTor Project is over 50% funded by individual contributors and relatively smaller private foundations [1]. Their expenses are roughly 50% of the revenue, so they could actually survive without their biggest funder - the US government. [1] https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2020-2021-TorProject-Annual-Report.pdf?h=3fdc0ff6 https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2020-2021-TorProjec...