Open-source maintainers still work underfunded as sponsorship crosses $100 million

A maintainer patches a library late at night that ships inside thousands of products, and no invoice follows. Sebastián Ramírez and Caleb Porzio spent years in that position. Ramírez, known as tiangolo, builds tools that other Python projects depend on. Porzio built Livewire and Alpine.js, tools thousands of web developers reach for. That gap carries a cost. Critical projects lose their maintainers to salaried jobs elsewhere, security fixes slow down, and the software supply chain … More →

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