What public money does to open-source projects
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The article evaluates a study that measured the effect of sovereign funding on critical open-source projects, finding that maintenance contracts significantly increase short-term development activity (commits, new issues, and merged change requests) but do not substantially grow the contributor base or reduce backlog; it argues that funding buys speed from existing maintainers while community growth and backlog reduction require separate programs.
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