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This is such a bad take.

Their "hobby" saves huge corporations large amounts of money. I don't understand how it's not obvious that they should chip in comparatively small amounts of money to make sure that the project stays updated and secure.

Why bother funding open source at all, it's not like it's the foundation of the entire worlds infrastructure or anything.

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Haha. That's the point. Everything would still work if no open source existed. Tech would just be far more centralized in the hands of a few companies who have all the software libraries. Progress and development of tech would be far slower. But the world would keep turning just fine. Open source exists only because of the programmers' love for programming, desire of attention and the desire to benefit other people's lives. Open source software mostly starts out as a surrogate activity. No company needs to fund individual open source devs. They'll go with whatever at hand, it doesn't matter, sometimes even hiring someone to continue the open source project the original dev abandoned cause lack of funding.

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