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I used to joke that my wife was probably one of the top 5 donors in the .net space because she bought me a new laptop for Christmas to do OSS work. The joke was that she was probably only in the top 20

I've got almost a quarter of a billon downloads on NuGet and at most I've gotten $15 a month before tax 🤣 But that's why I do OSS for myself and don't let anyone set my agenda, demanding/impolite users get lower priority. But it's fascinating how a select few pull majority of the weight.

Polly and Swashbuckle are both over a billion downloads at this point. Current sponsors? 8.

Quality over quantity? 🤔😎

It's a symptom of it coming out of Microsoft; basically MS suck up all of the oxygen from the ecosystem. It's very very very hard to get management buy-in to support OSS projects financially in .Net shops.