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Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever (frontendmasters.com)

submitted 2 days ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Funding has always been a challenge in open source. Projects can be more successful than ever while the people who maintain them can not afford to keep the lights on.

And yet, there are OSI zealots who cannot and will not accept any license that tries to solve the problem of funding. They will quote from the holy pages of OSI as if funding were already a solved problem. It's like talking to hardcore believers who cannot think that their religious text might not be the answer to everything or *gasp* wrong.