#BackTheStack questionnaire

[techtonik]

Taking the good from #1057, which was about campaigning and fundraising using other people's money. I like the #BackTheStack idea very much, but I've lost the thread somewhere around fundraising, VC and Kickstarter. I like playing with ideas, but in this case I think it is better for everyone if we concentrate on direct link - people and people. Because for me we are backing people.

So I created this ticket to raise awareness of #BackTheStack issues.

Yesterday speaking with Wargaming (who do support Linux Foundation and Django) I realized that executives at the companies don't even realize the problem. Yes, after a long marketing work inside of a company and dealing much resistance you can get major foundations supported, but that's it. People who deal with code and technology daily, accept open source as granted and never question themselves who is paying for it. Because, well, most of them are kept in isolation, so that they won't think about money and "just do their job". And because most of us happy IT guys from xUSSR don't know how money and economics work, often we are not just ready to pay, because it is free, and that's also true and should continue to be free for people like this without any pressure. Managers and executive are not aware of the problem at all, they often don't even understand what "open source" means, and those are the people who deliver software products for many years, who make money out it for living.

To keep a long story short - we should help these companies understand what their stack is:

1. Do you use open source projects in your daily routine?
2. Do you use open source projects as part of your commercial product?
3. Do you use open source projects to better serve you customers?
4. Do you agree that open source projects provide significant value to you? (no value, not significant, we would not survive without it)

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5. Do you think open source projects should be free for anyone by default with no strings attached?
6. Do you think that people who maintain open source projects should get money for living?
   7.1 If yes, where should they get the money from?
7. Do you know what happens to people that maintain open source projects that you use?
   8.1 If no, do you care about it? (I don't care and don't want to/Everything okay, because projects are alive/Let me know more about it)
8. Do you back your stack and how you do it?