Nadia Asparouhova
Writer and researcher on open source, author of "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" and, as Nadia Eghbal, of the 2016 Ford Foundation report "Roads and Bridges" on the digital infrastructure the economy runs on. She worked on community programmes at GitHub from 2016 to 2018 and writes at nadia.xyz.
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Believed beforeby their own account
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Company sponsorships, not individual ones, are where open source funding has to come from.
Their words, looking backI’ve seen recurring comments to the effect of “This is great, but individuals aren’t where the money’s at, it’s companies”, which is a position I’ve also previously taken.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsMy hypothesis: rather than individual sponsorships being a path to company sponsorships, the motivations of individuals are different from companies, and therefore should be treated as two separate use cases, and two separate products.