Looks great!

I hope you didn’t infer from my comment that we should stop individually supporting FOSS, that’s not what I’m saying.

However, I will counter that I don’t think you are current with the overwhelmingly massive imbalance of corporate vs personal use is currently in play on big Foss projects.

Ffmpeg is used by almost everyone with a video project, but not companies want to kick in any bucks:

https://m.slashdot.org/story/448966

We saw this back in 2015 as well with NTP, which almost everyone on the internet uses, yet the one guy who worked on it had to stop doing so temporarily in 2017 and get a job to support himself:

https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/ntp-needs-money-is-a-foundation-the-answer-

Not only do corps use FOSS at a higher rate by an order of magnitude than individual users, but they also profit from it.

Love the enthusiasm, but let’s stop casting this as an end-user-only problem. The real issue is, once again, large corporations using and taking advantage of oss while putting ZERO money or work back into oss. It’s victim blaming with extra steps, and us blaming each other is exactly what the real culprits want.

If it makes us feel better that we can pay on a regulsr basis for these things, great. But massive oss projects can’t thrive on a few of us donating.

Yeah, I read this article twice now, and the only identifiable wrongdoing on FUTO’s part is donating to FOSS projects without using their “institutional practice”… Which is a bizarre complaint.

The article is rife with “something ain’t right at FUTO”, but fails to wrap words around that statement.