This touches on two critical points most people miss: First that most OSS, even popular projects, get no relevant external contributions ever. Second that maintainers get NOTHING out of their effort besides a fancy line in their CVs that most companies ignore. OSS is 95% fueled by mere dev pride.
Despite running the world’s software economy, open source projects like curl lack backing. @AlexWilliams.bsky.social explains @daniel.haxx.se’s call for companies to finally step up and support what they rely on.
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