Open Source Funding

Can someone explain to me why open source projects don't take on more 'sponsors'?For example, one of my employers used to use the open source software Chronos. There is a lot of lacking GPU support in chronos, we opened up an issue and nobody wanted to tackle it, and in all honesty, if they had an easy way of getting the core contributors to be paid to add support they would have considered this.Fast forward, they had a dedicated internal developer build out a very specific

If you rely on Django or another open-source project, can you afford not to help fund it?

The problem is that you ask for money on OSS. Companies use OSS because it is free. If you try to force them to contribute or pay money, there will always be someone who has more passion than you to do it for free. At this point, just pass on your OSS project that is highly demanded but you have no passion for.

Can you clarify why being open-source won't work? There are many OSS projects driven without funds.

Don’t shame an amazing open source project for trying to be financially sustainable.

Most open source contributors aren't doing it to be paid; if there isn't enough demand or support they simply stop working on it and that's it. Usually once a project is big enough then there's enough demand from users that big companies start donating both money and employee time towards a project (AWS for example had dedicated employees contributing to Redis, and Linux as a foundation is supported by countless companies). The emphasis is on the money going towards supportin

Most open source projects don't bring in any money so why bother?

That's great that your Open Source project can sponsor contributors!

Because being free and open source will not fund running and development costs?

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