Nginx, which is basically proprietary software except its very core (like OpenX [1] and other companies that misuse the "open" label), received some more funds [2] and to some -- like IDG (or IDC) -- the only number that ever counts is money [3]. There is a new platform called Open Funding [4] and it's said "to help speed up the development of free and open source software by financially supporting the developers." Generally speaking, Free software should be funded by users, not outside companies, which usually seek to get money back -- a "return" on their "investment". Usually, although not always, there are user-hostile strings attached to the latter type of funding (the former has strings tied to users). This might help explain why Nginx stopped being Free software in the first place. The same type of thing happened to various other projects, some of them famous like MySQL.
Open-source server vendor Nginx will use the new financing to help fuel both its community and its commercial efforts.
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A crowd funding platform for free software projects has reached beta state and already transmits the helping requests of various FOSS development teams. The name is Open Funding and the mission is to help speed up the development of free and open source software by financially supporting the developers.