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PHP foundation only has funds for one full time staff member, 14 part-time contractors, which contributed to recent PHP2Shell exploit. (www.tomshardware.com)
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70% of the world's internet btw, but out-of-support deployments and little funding for permanent staff to manage the open-source project.

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[–] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

There are only two solutions. Government grants, or restricting Freedom 0 (The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose) and embracing a non-commercial model publication model. The latter model is undesirable because it turns everything into a subsidiary of Oracle.

These Silicon Valley companies are obscenely valuable. They should be taxed steeply.

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