There is no open source funding crisis: open source has never done better, and anyone who needs money for their software should sell it.

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  Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the project

  Hansson says there is no open source funding crisis and that anyone who needs money for their software should sell it. Kelley says handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the project. Selling is the remedy in one account and the disease in the other.

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• A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. DDDrew DeVault22 Aug 2018open source
• A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel. MMMatt Mullenweg17 Sept 2024open source
• A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026open source

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