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> thanks to governmental Matrix deals often going to system integrators who win contracts with Element's FOSS software and then don't contribute any $ back to E
by yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
> thanks to governmental Matrix deals often going to system integrators who win contracts with Element's FOSS software and then don't contribute any $ back to Element
Are they contributing code? Money (explicitly to a single specific entity, especially) is hardly the only way to support something.
- Arathorn 1y agoFrance has contributed back some code in lieu of money, but it’s a very mixed blessing given we then have to maintain that code, which costs way more in the long term than writing it in the first place. It also actively damages the braintrust of the team if Element has to let staff go because we can’t pay them, and get code instead (as happened with France).
- AAAAaccountAAAA 1y agoIf those contributions are more a liability than an asset, why not reject them?
- Arathorn 1y agoWe do, in some instances