GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month

Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month by kjgkjhfkjf on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:59PM (#46622078)

Proposals like these seem to assume that FOSS is mostly produced by unpaid volunteers. But a lot of the open-source stuff that I personally use is produced by massively profitable companies.

For example, I am currently working with React, which was produced by Meta. I write the code using TypeScript, which was produced by Microsoft (and other corporate behemoths such as Google). I am writing this comment in Chrome (produced by Google). Etc.

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Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month by prussia on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:41PM (#46626799)

Chrome is not FOSS btw. Google Chrome is proprietary software based on the open-source Chromium (also created by Google), which in turn is a fork of Webkit (by Apple, and with many corporate and non-corporate contributors), which itself is a fork of KHTML/KJS from the KDE project.

You are still right that corporations found and contribute to countless open source projects though.

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Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month by claudex on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:16AM (#46630540)

> I am writing this comment in Chrome (produced by Google).

Which depends on a lot of code not produced by Google, like libxml2 which was on the news recently because the maintainer step down.

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