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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.

  • 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.