Almost any maintainer of widely deployed OSS project can get a full time job working at a bigcorp to help maintain it.
3/3: another issue is being subject to endless debates about whether the amount of $ donated is "too much"
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"why do you need $10k to write a webpack replacement?! I could do that in an afternoon"
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Ideally leave it up to the people deciding whether to fund or not.
End of conversation
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OMG yes - the "do they _deserve_ this [probably incredibly modest sum of] money?" is such a weirdly pernicious thing.
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