Comment by Cthulhu_

Yeah, I should make a list of our dependencies and petition the bosses to give a shout-out in public to open source software and the debt we owe them, then get a budget for timed donations to all of those projects.

I mean for example, the back-end systems gave way after a doubling of requests (energy company). As a result, they spun up projects to improve performance, on the one side by enhancing the existing (commercial, expensive) systems, on the other to replace these existing systems with newer ones.

One thing they already achieved is to run API endpoints on lambdas, doubling performance (at least, I'm sure more can be achieved yet) and slashing costs by a factor of 60. While the lambdas are AWS proprietary, those too I'm sure use tons of open source software.