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We need more non profits who can set aside funds for these projects. It not like these companies don't want to help its just jot entirely clear how they can help.
They can help by donating some of their billions.
I'm sure many companies would if it wasn't just on individual
This is one of the problems, these companies and other groups just use a dependency maintained by one person (Lasse) without meaningfully contributing to its survival themselves.
We just need more non profits to manage projects. If a maintainer burns out they should be able to contact some organization to find help.