Doesn’t happen very often, but I agree with AWS. Open source has very much become a vendor-sponsored affair and there are fewer and fewer actual community-driven projects.
Doesn’t happen very often, but I agree with AWS. Open source has very much become a vendor-sponsored affair and there are fewer and fewer actual community-driven projects.
They could like pay the guy to maintain it, when they are making massive profits from it. But I know that would be too much to ask for from Amazon
I do see a scenario where the project becomes tainted because of it. Not really sure how to approach this as maintainers definitely need to get reimbursed in some way.
I wonder if some kind of not for profit organization could act as a benefactor to important open source projects. So people can just donate to this organization, maybe even give monthly or whatever, and the organization doles out the funds to open source projects based on the amount of maintainers and importance to the community at large.
Like a charity for open source. They’d have to operate with complete transparency and justify their actions to avoid accusations of corporate favoritism, but I think it would be doable.
Does something like this already exist?
Not that I know of, but it sounds like something that should. Like GiveWell, but instead of evaluating the impact of different charities, it does open source projects.
It’s all fine and dandy until another leftpad project implodes, disabling millions of websites.