Funding

The Open Source Endowment — a $750K bet that FOSS doesn't need VC money

The Open Source Endowment — a $750K bet that FOSS doesn't need VC money

The problem we’ve been pretending doesn’t exist

Open source has a funding problem. Not a small one. A structural one.

The numbers are absurd. cURL — probably the most deployed HTTP client in human history, running on billions of devices — was maintained by one person, Daniel Stenberg, …