There's a difference between a community backed effort vs a CEO of a small company that wants to throw $1M at something. Considering a community would do it for free, I'm under the impression that the CEO just wants to make money.
I view the risk differently: A community is self-supporting and contributors are equal.
If one entity throws 1M/yr onto it, they could suddenly stop and the contributors go away and no other contributors can take over as they never were equals ...
(And yes, it's more complicated, first case can also lose key contributors who have keys etc.)
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There's a difference between a community backed effort vs a CEO of a small company that wants to throw $1M at something. Considering a community would do it for free, I'm under the impression that the CEO just wants to make money.
I view the risk differently: A community is self-supporting and contributors are equal.
If one entity throws 1M/yr onto it, they could suddenly stop and the contributors go away and no other contributors can take over as they never were equals ...
(And yes, it's more complicated, first case can also lose key contributors who have keys etc.)
In fairness, the home page says "Backed by 1M annual investment"