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It feels pretty off that Laravel and Symfony, arguably the two largest benefactories to PHP being in such a good position have donated so little. Those contribution values are lifetime, Laravel hasn't funded it for over 3 years now, meanwhile its a multimillion dollar business with a huge amount of financial backing.

I know its all donations and not expected, but them kicking in ~$30k a month would realistically be nothing to them, but benefit the PHP foundation massively. The same goes for Symfony.




How's Symfony making money? Aren't they just OSS?

On the other hand Laravel has VC backing and sells services.


It's backed by SensioLabs (same creators as Symfony), plus theres a ton of sponsorship across the whole Symfony ecosystem. Every release is sponsored by multiple companies for example: https://symfony.com/backers

Symfony itself also had a round of funding many years ago when it wasn't rolling in cash, around $7 million if I recall.




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