Why would anyone else in the industry contribute resource to a FB-owned project with closed governance? They are in the bottom five companies in the world that need help with the open source projects they maintain.
I get what you are lamenting in general, I would like to see OpenSSL or Django or perhaps even Linux better funded for example. It just seems to me that this is not a case where any lamenting is justified. If the newly-community-owned Jest doesn’t get investment, then sure, that would be lamentable. But that hasn’t happened yet. Indeed, FB divesting ownership was a necessary condition for any serious outside investment to occur, IMO.
I was talking about the Linux Foundation of the original comment.
Now reading back, I realise that I might have gotten confused and took the numbers that were referring to the Facebook project, thinking it was the Linux donations.
