Chief Tightwad Officers

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open
source

Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice

Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction
to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for
the open source code that they use.

The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge - a group that
launched earlier this month. It asks businesses that make use of open
source code to pledge $2,000 per developer to support projects that
develop the code. So far, 25 companies have signed up ? but project
co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too.

Whitacre, whose day job is head of open source at app-monitoring biz
Sentry, told The Register his employer has for three years operated a
scheme to pay developers who maintain and upgrade open source code.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/open_source_funding_ads/?td=keepreading