Leonardo Fontenelleleonardof@bertha.social
Oct 21, 2026, 2:49 PMI guess, if I had a company relying on PHP (I dont') and paid a employee to contribute upstream, it wouldn't show um in the PHP Foundation budget
cc @cadusilva
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Oct 21, 2026, 3:01 PM@leonardof good point!
Perhaps the @thephpf knows if & how much this happens? @cadusilva
Rpsu (326 ppm)rpsu@mas.toOct 21, 2026, 4:57 PM@BjornW @leonardof @thephpf @cadusilva Given the huge amount of web sites running PHP (one third, or half?) almost no-one of the companies using PHP are funding it. That includes 2 of my last employers.
Open source is considered a free meal.
ShadSterlingShadSterling@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 8:20 PM@rpsu @BjornW @leonardof @thephpf @cadusilva I used to think that part of how FOSS development should work is that companies should hire people to maintain the projects the company depends on.
Now I’ve see what companies do to projects when that happens, and I think FOSS licenses should change to require for-profit use to provide no-strings funding, or prohibit for-profit use entirely
AJ Sadauskasajsadauskas@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 10:39 PM@ShadSterling @rpsu @BjornW @leonardof @thephpf @cadusilva Think for a moment about how much managed WordPress hosting providers collectively charge each month.
Add the total sales revenue from e-commerce stores running WooCommerce.
Add the total revenue from WordPress site ads each month.
That's just WordPress!
Now imagine how many billions in funding there would be for open source projects like PHP if half a cent of every dollar of that revenue went to supporting them.