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What is becoming increasingly clear is that the “non-profit” foundation is not adding much value and in many cases is not paying any open source maintainer to do any maintenance, as well as not providing any reciprocal access to its sponsors

So why not save a bunch of cash, get what you actually want, and pay open source maintainers directly?

The short version is that many software engineers don’t want to run a business and are risk averse

Burn out is miserable but it is a known misery