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(Ugh my english is so bad) (And yeah RN is particularly complex for OSS)

Yeah I'm talking more abstractly and not necessarily about RN. I'm on the team but have no idea what's going on. Yes! Let's chat when you're back, would love to help in any way I can.

(minor nitpick, if I’m understanding the way the Jest sponsor button works, technically it’s only “piping” the money from the “community” back to the “community” so no direct money from FB which sort of lives closer to your POV - which could be step 0 to start our conv later)

If Facebook committed just 1% of net income — not revenues, not market cap — to OSS it would be $225MM/year. The Open Collective support adds up to $110k and I suspect the cash expense for OSS engineering time & services is not $225MM. Biggest doesn’t always mean big.

Actually your number may not be far from reality. Add up all the FB engineers contributing on GitHub, apply a level distribution estimate and calculate total compensation per year and you’ll probably get to 225MM/year.

Total compensation is / can be significantly different from cash compensation. If we bring equity in the mix then we need to look at some derivative of market cap and 1% would be around a few billion dollars a year.

I get where you're coming from but 1% seems ludacris to me Companies don't spend 1% on services they need to survive as a business why would we expect that high of a percentage here