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Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork by pests on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:14PM (#39374677)
Also owned by a for-profit company who offers a pro version.
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Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork by spicykraken on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:43PM (#39376608)
Gotta pay the bills somehow
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Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork by Rapzid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:41PM (#39377668)
Maybe a coop of sorts could be formed where they pull in funds from sponsorships. A non-profit maybe. Devs could "lease" themselves to corporate sponsors and work on the project + some percentage time towards features they need. Sponsored development..

IDK could be a way to do it, pay the bills and some, and also limit the negative impacts public business or VC funded growth startup.

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Re:Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork by HackerThemAll on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:47AM (#39395365)
That doesn't work. For example Apple, benefiting from FreeBSD Foundation's work, never gave back any single penny to them, never sponsored any project within the Foundation. 1 million a year would mean a world to the Foundation, and would be less than a rounding error in Apple balance sheet.
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