Indeed, if you benefit from Free Software you'd better engage with it. Maintainers should stop bending backwards to please free loaders.

There's a sustainability issue for the REST support with Django. Hopefully this will resolve.

Having a bootstrappable build is definitely not an easy feat! It is something necessary to do though for trust and for longevity reasons.

It's a piece which really resonates with me. I've been thinking and saying for a while that focusing mostly on the technical (licensing and dev) aspects of Open Source was a mistake. This completely overlooked the political side of the Free Software equation. This is why the industry is as it is now. We need stronger commons and indeed the AGPL is best for that.

Definitely a good idea, we'd need several such institutes across the world. Would governments be willing to try this?

Making sure maintainers are well paid is indeed an ongoing problem. There is currently no perfect solution within the world we live in. This is indeed no reason to blame the maintainers themselves for the approach they picked.

Yes, there's something to do in this space. More funding is necessary, some form of platform might help... but it definitely won't be enough.

Interesting set of advices for better communication and more sustainable production of software.

Now that's an interesting idea to give back money to maintainers... can be sustainable only if enough company do this on a regular basis though.

This is an interesting approach to ensure at sustainable productivity through the year. It covers different rhythms as it should: daily, weekly, yearly. If you read between the lines you can tell it tries quite hard at keeping stress at bay. I think I'll even try to apply some of that with my own adaptations (it's not strict rules more like guidelines, clearly needs to be adapted to your job, for instance "only" 4 hours of knowledge work per day would feel low in my context).