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Example: @fbOpenSource let me work on Babel when I first joined (I later voluntarily stopped working on it). That cost Facebook my full-time salary. Now I still see Facebook being ostracized for not funding Babel enough.
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I feel like many in open source don't consider companies hiring people to work on projects as "sponsoring". It's arguably much more effective and it's costing these companies more $$$ than most money sponsorships.
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Yeah. FB sponsors a ton of OSS.
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Yup, everyone ignores the salaries + benefits of all the employees working on this stuff, Facebook-created projects and others. Tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars.
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What led to this belief? Shitposts etc?
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Perhaps as a PR move some companies could publish (maybe with support/confirmation by some project groups) some basic metrics and info (not specific dollars) about hours/people/allocation percentages towards public stuff. Just a thought to help further the narrative.
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Personally think if large companies talked about amount of resources aimed at open source, it would likely bring many other smaller companies along for the ride. Also, the ROI specifics seem to be missing from most advocacy efforts I see, because I believe there is a large ROI.
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