Here’s the part that got me: > We believe that sponsorship is a necessary component of sustainability. It’s an important way for users to say “thank you”. It is great to see corporations step up to sponsor projects, like AWS and Microsoft. Clearly, ImageSharp and projects like it need higher levels of sponsorship I thought - I am not sure why but I did - that .NET foundation packages were well founded and they actively helped get funding for the projects. It amazes me that Microsoft (and other big .NET players) aren’t already fully funding what is ostensibly considered a bedrock library within the community. It is my understanding after all the foundation only accepts projects in part due to their popularity and impact in the ecosystem as a whole. I guess it’s not just the web ecosystem that has this problems