Any Dev that takes ETF money is a fed. If not now then soon. Its like regulatory capture but instead its Dev energy.
If the man feeds you then you are the mans boy. Quit larping.
Leave the ETF cash alone.
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Meh. The more devs they buy, the less those devs can contribute.
That said, no strings attached money is a common model for funding open source devs.
Buying a dev and supporting a dev are not equivalent. But telling the difference takes a long time.
The support is called cultivation. At some point comes the ask and then there is a reward cycle. The cycle repeats.
So yah. It takes a while to tell the difference