My prediction: #astral #ruff will soon compete directly with codeclimate, sonarqube, codacy and the like. As far as I can tell, these products take a variety of free tools, repackage them and sell them to corporate customers with a hosted SaaS, sometimes with free tiers (zero marginal costs, so why not, it is a sales pipeline). They do so quietly and so who knows if they contribute anything back, if they violate the social norms of opensource or hire or compensate maintainers.
If I got a point, it is that this is nothing new.
If I had to come up with a way to fund opensource, I'd say the federal government should fund it, but heck if I know how grant would be made & managed. The government already has a mixed record in software purchasing. If, say, the gov't decided to fund jquery maintenance, would it happen in a way that would be better than how MS is maintaining it? Who knows.
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