
Open-source sustainability: Mandatory corporate sponsorship laws
Picture this: You’re sipping your morning coffee, scrolling through GitHub, when suddenly it hits you—that critical library your entire company depends on? The one that saves you millions in development costs? It’s maintained by exactly one person who hasn’t been paid a dime in three years and is slowly burning out faster than a cheap laptop running Docker. Welcome to the beautiful, chaotic world of open source sustainability, where trillion-dollar companies build empires on the backs of volunteer developers who can barely afford ramen....