Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

“ In Germany, for instance, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is financing the Sovereign Tech Fund, a program of the Sovereign Tech Agency investing in “projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem.” Currently funded projects include FreeBSD, a Unix-like operating system; JUnit, a testing framework for the Java ecosystem; the PHP Foundation, which is behind the PHP programming language; and the OpenJS Foundation, which hosts a range of JavaScript projects.”

I would be pissed if my tax dollars were going to e-commerce platforms. We do not need more JavaScript frameworks. Protein-folding? Security research? Artificial vision? Sure. PHP? Um, no.

While I think its great there are movements like the "open source pledge" in the article, i think commercial open source software via the open core approach continues to work.

People can grumble about feature gating all they want but its helped build sustainable businesses that maintain projects, gitlab, mattermost, posthog etc

(and hopefully laudspeaker https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker too)

This kind of alert has been raising since long time ago, not present issue. But had not been resolved yet and will not get it. As you know open source programmers do not aim to money and get honor, they, indeed me as well, do it because it is fun. The matter of burning out is not our problem. You can join to every OSS project if you hate to quit developping or fade outing it. This is OSS.