It's always scary to see an open source organization being acquired

aatd86 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah but people don't want to pay for software so all open source is basically subsidized.

Raed667 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

+200 people/orgs are listed as vite github sponsors

	▲	applfanboysbgon 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		200 people out of how many hundreds of thousands of users? Are they giving an average $5 a month, for a grand total of $12000 a year? Maybe a little bit more?
	▲	throw10920 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How many FTEs does that pay for?

notnullorvoid 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you look at it broadly nearly all software is subsidized by open source, so it's a smart choice to send some subsidies back to open source.

People will pay out of the nose for software if they find it useful enough.

pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is what happens when no one wants to pay for their tools.

Real life isn't 60's hippies community farms.

There are bills to pay in capitalist societies.

	▲	rvz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There you go. I said this as well and no-one here can explain how these open source dev tools companies are making any money with their open source products. Now they are surprised to see that acquisitions like this are happening and "open source" has given this entitlement on developers to believe that it is "free" when someone always ends up paying.