> Akka requires significant investment in order to maintain its position as a preeminent distributed systems runtime. Many organizations have adopted Akka and are seeing significant benefits for their organizations.

> However, in recent years an increasing number of those organizations have elected to self-support without either contributing back to the community or by investing in annual subscriptions. We have an ambitious roadmap for the future of Akka and require a way to fund and sustain that development.

> We believe that larger organizations that are seeing business benefits from Akka should contribute to the ongoing health and evolution of the project.

They need money to continue development, and the current model isn't generating enough revenue for them to stay in business.