Comment by bruce511
People make choices all the time. Choices that are overseen by management, and shareholders.
People can of course choose to spend their political capital, and discretionary budget on random OSS projects. Or they can choose to spend it on their project, their goals, the outcomes that make their walk in the company easier, the actions that will get them promoted and not fired.
These are choices people make, and frankly OSS funding delivers very very little bang for the buck. (On a buck by buck basis.)
Sure — my point was that we should discuss why this happens in terms of the real human dynamics. Either to conclude it’s not worth changing or to design a plan of how to change it.
But neither goal is aided by hyperbole, pretending that not paying OSS is gravity.