Re:I'm working on open source full time
by asiachick on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:06PM
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I don't know if SAP contributes but Microsoft pays for C#, VSCode, and other open source projects. And further they support open source by providing github, github's free site hosting, and github's free CI.
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Re:I'm working on open source full time
by pessimizer on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:29PM
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The suggestion wasn't that the government should only buy from companies that have done or are doing some open source, the suggestion was that the government only finance FOSS.
Also, nobody told them to buy Github. It wasn't a charitable acquisition.
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by int_19h on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:21PM
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Microsoft also pays salary for several people who are core Python contributors, and sponsor PSF and PyCon.
(I'm sure there are similar arrangements for other projects - that's just the stuff I'm familiar with.)
However, Python is an example of a large and prominent OSS product. Generally speaking, stuff like that doesn't struggle to find sponsors. But there are all those countless small OSS projects that get used by for-profit companies without any financial support for their maintenance. There needs to be some arrangement to accommodate those, as well.