Yeah but people don't want to pay for software so all open source is basically subsidized.
reply+200 people/orgs are listed as vite github sponsors
reply200 people out of how many hundreds of thousands of users? Are they giving an average $5 a month, for a grand total of $12000 a year? Maybe a little bit more?
replyHow many FTEs does that pay for?
replyIf you look at it broadly nearly all software is subsidized by open source, so it's a smart choice to send some subsidies back to open source.
replyPeople will pay out of the nose for software if they find it useful enough.
replyThat is what happens when no one wants to pay for their tools.
replyReal life isn't 60's hippies community farms.
There are bills to pay in capitalist societies.
There you go. I said this as well and no-one here can explain how these open source dev tools companies are making any money with their open source products.
replyNow they are surprised to see that acquisitions like this are happening and "open source" has given this entitlement on developers to believe that it is "free" when someone always ends up paying.