I don't think we will receive enough donations to cover infrastructure costs, let alone maintainers' salaries.
Even core-js sole maintainer failed to raise enough donations to feed his own family, despite the library is used by at least half of the top 1000 Alexa websites. [0]
People (and also big-techs) just won't pay for anything they can get for free.
Even core-js sole maintainer failed to raise enough donations to feed his own family, despite the library is used by at least half of the top 1000 Alexa websites. [0]
People (and also big-techs) just won't pay for anything they can get for free.
[0]: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...