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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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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You might be interested in a talk Yehuda and I gave last year on open source models—we touched on this topic of healthy relationships between companies and communities:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YrlsXq8gZdM …
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Ah yes. I'm proud of this talk
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I definitely don’t think people mean the big ones when they talk about this. I know I’ve worked for companies where OSS was heavily used but if I wanted to contribute I had to do it “on my own time”. lots of these out there, specially in the fast moving VC fuelled economy
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Does it make sense to consider it mooching if small companies don't have the resources to contribute back to OSS? Isn't that kind of the point of OSS?
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OSS is not shareware, ya know?
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But of course, I'm a strong proponent of even small companies giving enthusiastic employees time to contribute back. Big win-win.
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