For me the sad part about the story is that someone who clearly knows what they are doing wasn’t able to find a job that would have permitted him to continue working on the project and that there were insufficient sponsors from companies.

Not the fact that he made the decision he made.

Database backup tools are used primarily in enterprise context. (In)Ability to donate is not a function of personal spending preferences

A fair amount of people work here at orgs on here would absolutely be able to swing couple of hundred bucks per month in sponsorship or licensing or donations for a critical tool in their infra toolkit without lot of effort.

Particularly so, with the rising frequency of AI deleted my prod posts.