Post #1850190
2026-02-01 15:26 UTC
@mirandah @django @jacob another quote from the same source,
“T]he one that annoys me personally is Facebook buys Instagram for a billion dollars, and Instagram has not donated a cent or a line of code to #Django or to #Python which they built that on top of. There is so much money around open source, there is not a company out there that is not directly more profitable because they're using free software and yet very very few people actually are getting paid for their work on open source.’”
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@thibaudcolas@fosstodon.org 2026-02-01 15:27
@mirandah @django @jacob Miranda’s full report: https://mirandaheath.website/report-on-burnout-in-open-source-software/
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@webology@mastodon.social 2026-02-01 15:48
@thibaudcolas @mirandah @django @jacob I'm firmly in the camp that they should have given more and that they should still be sponsoring, but they were a DSF sponsors for several years. So I appreciate where this is coming from and while I largely agree, let's correct the record that they were sponsoring, and they did employ at least one Django Core dev during this time.