sorry must’ve mistyped on the phone. I corrected my post.
I basically meant: corporations pay bills, without having a bill they do not pay stuff. they do not give away money if they don’t have to. so paid support contracts are imho a good way for corporations to pay for FOSS. donations not so much
If you’re a big open source project, sure, sometimes. If you’re one of the hundreds or thousands smaller libraries they use, no, because there’s no PR to gain from sponsoring a small project.
This is sadly true. As a tech lead i try to steer the team away from the old thinking that oss should not get developer love. At the very least make a small poc of the issue and supply that. We are all developers. You dont try to make it hard on coworkers, so dont make it hard of maintainers of an oss project you use.
Is this the case? Don’t corporations usually sponsor a little bit at least?
In most cases no. Sometimes they let their developers contribute to the open source projects for a small percentage of their working time.
You haven’t met many corporations have you.
When I do, I don’t ask them whether they donate to the foss projects they consume, let’s put it that way.
Some send table scraps to bigger organization, like the Apache Foundation. The millions of small projects that they depend on get shit.
Unfortunate 🫤
You mean give away money without being billed?
Sorry, what do you mean?
sorry must’ve mistyped on the phone. I corrected my post. I basically meant: corporations pay bills, without having a bill they do not pay stuff. they do not give away money if they don’t have to. so paid support contracts are imho a good way for corporations to pay for FOSS. donations not so much
Not one company I’ve worked at has ever paid a license for anything if it was at all possible to do it freely.
EPPlus trying to get money for their hard work? Guess we are stuck on the free version forever then…
It’s fucking embarrassing.
If you’re a big open source project, sure, sometimes. If you’re one of the hundreds or thousands smaller libraries they use, no, because there’s no PR to gain from sponsoring a small project.
This is sadly true. As a tech lead i try to steer the team away from the old thinking that oss should not get developer love. At the very least make a small poc of the issue and supply that. We are all developers. You dont try to make it hard on coworkers, so dont make it hard of maintainers of an oss project you use.