Comment by leakycap
2 days ago
> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host
Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise?
> and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship
Corpo sponsorship required for success? I guess I better tell all the open-source projects being used by millions that they're just hobbyists now.
> The problem [...] everything digital [...] Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?
I have heard of analog world nostalgia, but you refer to the pre-digital age as if you didn't live through it. It's easier to locate someone today than ever before.
Can you name one open-source project "used by millions" that does not have corporate sponsorship?
This implies corporate sponsorship is a requirement for, as opposed to result of, a projects usefulness. That has not been the case for most valuable open source software.
Who sponsors curl?
GNU? Depending on how you want to treat FSF and PSF, gcc, emacs, python (are FSF/PSF/Apache corporations? Does PSF’s donations from corporations make python corporate sponsored?)
Never heard of Monero?
Keepass only allows donations, with no benefits for corporate vs. personal sponsors
GIMP is one of the most widely known & its sponsors only lists a few companies as hardware donors
VLC anyone?
OBS and Audacity (until recently) are two off the top of my head. Plus a lot of Linux components are run solely by a couple people, and those are run my millions of programmers.