What's going on with #NixOS right now is a good example of why having sponsors doesn't mean you have an infinite budget.
Once the sponsor pulls out - and they eventually will! - it's always the community that's left to pick up the pieces, and so you have an obligation to ensure that the funding burden is minimal.
@joepie91 We've spent the last decade trying to build a central repository of all the software that has ever existed, instead of making sure packages from different sources could coexist nicely, and this is the result.
@ttuegel I mean, I certainly have my opinions about the monolithic nature of nixpkgs, but that is not really the issue at hand here; the problem is more that the binary cache was built using just about the most expensive hosting option available, under the (wrong) assumption that sponsors would pick up the bill forever.
There are many, *many* ways to host the exact same content at a significantly lower cost.
@joepie91 True, nothing I said matters in the short term (1 month), but beyond that, the project needs to change how its costs scale over time. If we cut the hosting costs in half, but costs continue to double every year, then we'll be right back here in 12 months.