Why should VCs back oss infrastructure directly? It doesn't help the VCs and only creates perverse incentives for the oss projects.

The SaaS/cloud/etc. companies themselves should fund the projects they depend on. They actually know what those are and don't have to force their own monetization/growth models onto the projects.

> The SaaS/cloud/etc. companies themselves should fund the projects they depend on.

There is a bit of a free rider problem it seems.

Noooooooo you can’t ask them to pay! You’re supposed to do this for the good of the community only! They ought to be able to take whatever you do and resell at their leisure, after all you made it open source!

And don't forget that GPL is bad, only BSD and MIT are the real free licenses because they let us take the code and sell it on without forcing us to contribute back.

definitely. not talking about the vc specifically, but the investment chain. a typical free rider, directly or indirectly.

> The SaaS/cloud/etc. companies themselves should fund the projects they depend on.

If anything, the same "valuable" "community" members, a lot of which includes such SaaS businesses and other freeloaders, seems to shout at projects trying to ensure their survival through formal ownership structures and license changes.

Sure, may be VCs specifically shouldn't be where the money comes from but this labour NEEDS to be paid otherwise shit like this will keep happening. Dear god, I looked it up just now, but next week will be the 10th anniversary of Heartbleed being introduced to the world. A decade, and really little has changed.