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Comment by i67vw3 | Hacker News Reader

“Collaboration” might be from tech side as I do not see any financial “collaboration” https://opencollective.com/obsproject

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Streamlab's parent company Logitech is OBS's largest Organization donor and has been donating since May 2019

Source?

That very page in the parent post. 50000$ from Logitech. I would have expected more.

Plus the development time they give internally to the open source project.

Straight on the list of top contributors on the open collective page the GP linked. The source is in the post claiming that there’s no contribution.

Did not know that Logitech bought Streamlabs. My comment therefore invalidates.

> since May 2019

Well. Kinda. They gave a "yearly" contribution of $50,000 once in 2019, then never again. Also that was before Logitech bought Streamlabs.

Seems like they were hedging their bets pre-acquisition of Streamlabs to me.

They're a "premier sponsor" on the front page of OBS along with Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube. They're giving far more than $50k/year to earn that spot. The one-time donation in 2019 was likely their smallest.

Genuine question - is OBS set up so that all contributions show up there? Or is this the equivalent of a Patreon or something, where a large corporation doing large corporate things would instead write a check (or do a wire transfer) completely unrelated to this website?

Not all financial contributions are shown there. There's a Patreon and also private contributions that exceed the Open Collective tiers, they appear in the Premier section on the OBS homepage.

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