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It feels pretty off that Laravel and Symfony, arguably the two largest benefactories to PHP being in such a good position have donated so little. Those contribu
by esskay 2y ago
It feels pretty off that Laravel and Symfony, arguably the two largest benefactories to PHP being in such a good position have donated so little. Those contribution values are lifetime, Laravel hasn't funded it for over 3 years now, meanwhile its a multimillion dollar business with a huge amount of financial backing.
I know its all donations and not expected, but them kicking in ~$30k a month would realistically be nothing to them, but benefit the PHP foundation massively. The same goes for Symfony.
- kyriakos 2y agoHow's Symfony making money? Aren't they just OSS? On the other hand Laravel has VC backing and sells services.
- esskay 2y agoIt's backed by SensioLabs (same creators as Symfony), plus theres a ton of sponsorship across the whole Symfony ecosystem. Every release is sponsored by multiple companies for example: https://symfony.com/backers https://symfony.com/backers Symfony itself also had a round of funding many years ago when it wasn't rolling in cash, around $7 million if I recall.