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Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?
by throw-the-towel 1y ago
Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?
- headsman771 1y agoThis implies corporate sponsorship is a requirement for, as opposed to result of, a projects usefulness. That has not been the case for most valuable open source software.
- tomrod 1y agoWho sponsors curl?
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- smj-edison 1y agoOBS and Audacity (until recently) are two off the top of my head. Plus a lot of Linux components are run solely by a couple people, and those are run my millions of programmers.
- sokoloff 1y agoGNU? Depending on how you want to treat FSF and PSF, gcc, emacs, python (are FSF/PSF/Apache corporations? Does PSF’s donations from corporations make python corporate sponsored?)
- leakycap 1y agoNever heard of Monero? Keepass only allows donations, with no benefits for corporate vs. personal sponsors GIMP is one of the most widely known & its sponsors only lists a few companies as hardware donors VLC anyone?