I think the key there is funding from big companies. There’s tons of standards and the like in which big companies take part - both in terms of code and financial support. Big projects like the rust compiler, the Linux kernel, blender, etc. all seem to have a lot of code and money coming in from big companies. Sadly there’s only so much you can get from individuals - pretty much the only success story I know of is the wikimedia foundation.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I may be wrong but I thought they were majority user funded.
IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Wikimedia foundation is, none of the other things I listed are.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I meant Blender, they seem to be majority funded by regular people.
IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I just checked their financial report for 2022 and it looks like 50% came from patron funding (which looks like entirely companies like Google), 5% from epics grant, and then 10% corporate membership. 20% came from individuals, and the rest from random other miscellaneous things like the blender market.