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Re:We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers by mehrdada on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:53PM (#28952948)
Google probably injects way more than that to fund open source projects: it is called working at Google. $290M is a measly, 600 avg employees or so (let's just assume ~500k for an average gSWE in Bay Area). These cash donations may be nice for indie projects but they are really too small to move the needle at scale. Real-world open source is by-and-large built and funded by corporate employees.

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