I had the great pleasure of processing Sanity's donations to open source projects too. Hope other companies follow suit!
This is a great initiative, but one wonders to which degree this is mostly a marketing stunt, white-washing their own "fair source" efforts.
Sentry is a multi-billion company, and Open Source pays exactly none of their bills (though it may serve other purposes). This leads to pages such as [1] where they actively steer users away from self-hosting their "open source" (in name only) solution.
Much has been said about Sentry's switch to "Fair Source"[2], but for me personally, the ship of "open source in name only" sailed long before that with the ever-increasing complexity of managing your own setup.[3] It’s clear that the priority here has shifted to pushing users toward their hosted, paid plans. Business models beat licenses every time if you want to understand actual intentions.
Disclaimer: I am the solo-everything at a competitor, which is in fact _not_ Open Source.[4]
[1] https://sentry.io/resources/self-hosted-vs-cloud/ (click on pdf for scary pictures)
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171665
[3] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/ commit/78bc759d1be4fa6b8ae3e2764e7156e05eb22ab9
Love to see it. Glad to see PHP getting more support here
They gave the most to the python community at 46500.
They must have the most inroads there, I imagine.
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Sentry is great. I help develop an open source game engine and they have given us a free team license for their product since it is open source. They've been invaluable for fighting crashes and regressions.