I'm keynoting the #fossnorth conference next week. If you are there, come say hi!

https://foss-north.se/2025/

(let me offer a work-in-progress slide from it)

@bagder On that note - if a company is basing a commercial product heavy on open source project(s), what's the best way to give back? Money or co-maintainers/contributions.

(Of course this is different between projects, but somehow generalized like your slide for the most common case)

@troed I think the generalized answer would be: "in the way the project wants it". Slightly larger/mature ones might think accepting sponsorships/money is the better take, while smaller ones in many cases rather prefer code/helping-hands.

@highvoltage I think we know less about that though. And proprietary projects are A) less interesting and b) live much shorter lifetimes in general.

@bagder depending on the message you want to send, you should add "*: One is very close to None".
Also, are you sure that active OSS projects outnumber abandoned ones?

@ang_mo_uncle we can of course not be completely sure of this, but numbers from previously run polls indicate this, yes

@bagder this is unexpectedly awesome.

@bagder I'm actually surprised it's that high!

@bagder
The rise of the Atomic Ecosystem..

@bagder, expected zero there.