Their conclusion that companies must be the ones to fund more development is uh, unlikely to be the solution.
The days where you’re going to have a corporation fund anything out of the goodness of their hearts is long gone, if it ever really existed in the first place.
They won’t even make sure that critical bits of software their business relies on are being maintained, never mind being altruistic money fairies to anyone else.
The future, honestly, is going to be a combination of government funding (because it’s in their - and our - interest to not be beholden to one or another monopolist), and user funding. How many people do you know that use some open source software that have donated either money OR time to the project they use?
Their conclusion that companies must be the ones to fund more development is uh, unlikely to be the solution.
The days where you’re going to have a corporation fund anything out of the goodness of their hearts is long gone, if it ever really existed in the first place.
They won’t even make sure that critical bits of software their business relies on are being maintained, never mind being altruistic money fairies to anyone else.
The future, honestly, is going to be a combination of government funding (because it’s in their - and our - interest to not be beholden to one or another monopolist), and user funding. How many people do you know that use some open source software that have donated either money OR time to the project they use?