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0 pointsballoob3y ago0 comments

Brought to you by our $20k/year annual membership fee that Home Assistant, an open source project, pays to be a member of the CSA alliance and be able to contribute to the open source Matter reference implementation.

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pbronez3y ago

Thanks for showing up and advocating for the open side of the world.

This made me curious about how Home Assistant is funded. Looks like it's mostly through Nabu Casa, which is a SaaS backend for Home Assistant that costs $6.50/mo or $65/yr in the US https://www.nabucasa.com/pricing/

gerardlouw3y ago

I feel like it violates some core principle of FOSS if you have to pay to be allowed to contribute.

I mean, the purists will argue you can still fork it.

But then you'll eventually have the same problem all the Chromium forks have now with Manifest v3.

At least there's some form of "committee" in the case of Matter, but I'm slightly less excited about it now having learned this.

Semaphor3y ago

Ouch, is this from donations or is Nabu Casa funding that?

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