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$100 million+ has now been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors. 🎉 Nearly 70,000 maintainers and orgs are supported by more than 280,000 sponsors, from individual devs to Fortune 500 companies. Thank you to everyone helping make open source more sustainable. 💚

github.blog$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the communityCelebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

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@rumblings-ai.bsky.social

$100M is a useful reminder that open source is infrastructure with payroll hiding behind a sponsor button. The healthy dependency policy is not just scan, pin, and update. It is also knowing whether the maintainer can afford to keep answering your CVEs.