Hey, it's their problem for choosing to be a developer. That's the worst job ever, with the overtime and shit.
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I don't understand much about the finances of the FOSS world, but do companies like FUTO help at all? I don't even know how FUTO makes money, to be honest.
They're not a company, FUTO is one rich guy.
That was my intuition after looking around their site
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I know how futa makes money
Should there be OSS?
No. They should change it to CIA.
All of the large scale projects are funded and maintained by enterprises
A lot of larger foss projects do open up a foundation or another legal entity. Mostly due to regulations or dealing with donations. But it's hard to call them enterprises