<html><head></head><body><div><div><div style="display: none; border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;"><img src="https://r.superhuman.com/GQ5Lxrp5ipuXOwPixss5_o4tBBVBH_PAN43jz_V5nGLuAyt8tV0WpOesOrHVSCKwZfzzp-L4QpTkWpnEcZ-iCNpfr0szzpL_84_FzV71CzOFQWWcdEI2zpgxPXLMMHHcMcp5m0Xd_n9XtLanQehspMlTVZ9z0dW5DDDWOwGNTUg85-I8FkC844Gb8FLjynzNx7tyxw.gif" alt=" " width="1" height="0" style="display: none; border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;"/><!-- --></div><div><div><div>One place to source that information is over at OpenCollective (example of contributors to the Webpack project - <a href="https://opencollective.com/webpack#section-contributors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://opencollective.com/webpack#section-contributors</a>). There are many well known companies that are listed as supporting some of the more popular and critical projects.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="gmail_signature"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><p><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">M. Scott Ford<br/>Co-Founder & Chief Code Whisperer<br/>Corgibytes, LLC<br/>804.596.2375 x701<br/><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:scott@corgibytes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scott@corgibytes.com</a><br/><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://corgibytes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://corgibytes.com</a> </font></p><br/><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Have you read our </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://firstround.com/review/forget-technical-debt-heres-how-to-build-technical-wealth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">First Round Review</a></i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> article about paying off technical debt? </span><br/></p><p><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our CEO was named one of <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://lists.linkedin.com/2016/next-wave-top-professionals-35-and-under-20161011/software" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn's Top 10 Software Professionals under 35</a>. How cool is that?! </font></p><p><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Love refactoring and TDD? Join us at <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://LegacyCode.Rocks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LegacyCode.Rocks</a> for masterminds, podcasts, and more. </font></p></div></div></div></div></div><br/><div style="clear:both">Sent via <a href="https://sprh.mn/?vip=scott@corgibytes.com" target="_blank">Superhuman</a></div><br/></div></div><br/><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:55 AM, Bastien <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bzg@bzg.fr" target="_blank">bzg@bzg.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br/><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote sh-color-black sh-color" style="null" id="null"><p class="sh-color-black sh-color">Hi David,
</p><p class="sh-color-black sh-color">
"David Ing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:isss@daviding.com">isss@<wbr/>daviding.<wbr/>com</a>" <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:isss@daviding.com">isss@<wbr/>daviding.<wbr/>com</a>> writes:
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The reason that this should be of interest to the
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Maintainers community is that a large part of the investment is in
maintenance, not developing new-to-the-world programs.
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I would be very interested in sources supporting this last statement.
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Context: I am trying to make a point within the public sector that we
should invest on maintaining open source software that we depend on.
Showing that companies share this approach would possibly help me.
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Thanks!
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Bastien
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