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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.
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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This is the dark matter in the "open source funding crisis" narrative. People claim companies are mooching off of OSS, when the biggest single source of OSS funding is sponsored time from companies.
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I think the benefits of sponsored time are becoming more apparent as more people are quitting their jobs to work on open source, and having great difficulty relying on opencollective/patreon to fund themselves.
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this is a good point. The same can be said of many projects and companies. How to quantify it though? It'd be great it this companies had a 80-20 policy across the board to work on oss for example.
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because this information is not accessible/public then it's almost impossible to measure.
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