[dmezzetti]

Companies that consider an open source project a critical part of their infrastructure should sponsor or compensate those projects.

Also when someone finds a bug, the maintainers are under no obligation to fix it or fix it with any timeline or even debug what's going on. If someone wants an immediate response they should provide compensation.

A common misconception is that OSS developers do everything for free. They do what THEY want for free. If YOU want to change their priorities, companies need to compensate for that.

[rini17]

Then someone finds out you are rewarding outsiders for something they are doing for free anyway. Such cutting into company profit is inexcusable. You are supposed to ride even your own employees raw to maximize profits, not to splurge money to some weirdos just like that!