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There was a debate on Twitter yesterday about how to make open-source projects sustainable. Andrew Randall of Kinvolk argued that companies that care about Open Source should downgrade their platinum foundation sponsorships and put 10-100K of that money towards independent open source projects, like OpenFaaS. Chris Aniszczyk was quick to criticise this suggestion as "donations" and stressed that projects must turn into businesses and develop products in order to fund themselves. Don't get me wrong: Chris is supportive of OpenFaaS and I think he has a point.
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