I admit to a certain level of exaggeration but, at the same time, we are talking literal peanuts to a large company. They could spend a million dollars and it'd be a rounding error on their balance sheet.
In all seriousness, taking actions like I identified above would cost the companies virtually nothing but result in huge long-term benefits by signaling to the rest of the open source world that "we love your work and will be right beside you helping if the chips are down."
This is, of course, not a suitable compensation model for popular open source projects. Thats a separate conversation.
In all seriousness, taking actions like I identified above would cost the companies virtually nothing but result in huge long-term benefits by signaling to the rest of the open source world that "we love your work and will be right beside you helping if the chips are down."
This is, of course, not a suitable compensation model for popular open source projects. Thats a separate conversation.
But it would at least be something.