>I find that a strange question to be honest. Plenty of FOSS is well funded.
You'd be surprised. Even extremely popular projects are severely underfunded, to the point of begging for money, while being used left and right by huge enterprises...
>I totally see the problems. But it's not that nothing is happening and no solutions exist. OpenSSL moved from "mostly one overworked guy with little funding" to "stable funding from multiple parties". It did so by convincing some major internet players that they need to increase the funding of software important for running the Internet.
If it has to come to that -- convincing Facebook, Google, IBM, whoever etc --, surely there's something problematic?
You'd be surprised. Even extremely popular projects are severely underfunded, to the point of begging for money, while being used left and right by huge enterprises...
>I totally see the problems. But it's not that nothing is happening and no solutions exist. OpenSSL moved from "mostly one overworked guy with little funding" to "stable funding from multiple parties". It did so by convincing some major internet players that they need to increase the funding of software important for running the Internet.
If it has to come to that -- convincing Facebook, Google, IBM, whoever etc --, surely there's something problematic?