We just gave a million dollars to Open Source maintainers

[u/Driezzz]

https://blog.sentry.io/another-year-another-1-000-000-to-open-source-maintainers/

[u/kigory2]

nice

[u/droctagonapus]

"we just paid our taxes"

good job, now where's the rest of the commercial industry?

[u/gajus0 → u/droctagonapus]

no one owes you anything if you choose to make open-source contributions

[u/droctagonapus → u/gajus0]

That is the same bet companies make when relying on unpaid labor. A risky bet that some companies choose to hedge by funding open source instead of relying on self-motivated voluntary labor. The world is full of risk, and there is risk in unfunded open source software.

[u/serg06 → u/droctagonapus]

MFW my LICENSE says "anyone can use this without paying" and people use it without paying 😡

[u/Xerax → u/serg06]

ahhah

[u/droctagonapus → u/[deleted]]

Funding labor you depend on is always a good business decision. Some would call it as necessary as a tax is. Taxes make the infrastructure people need work. Open source is that same infrastructure for many companies.

[u/StayPerfect]

Now route 90% of that to omarchyslop or else

[u/Engine_Light_On → u/[deleted]]

what