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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Replying to @brian_d_vaughn
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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Replying to @sebmck @brian_d_vaughn
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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Replying to @wycats @brian_d_vaughn
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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