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How We're Funded
IOI is supported through a mix of philanthropic support and financial commitments from institutions, consortia-based organizations, and more. As a sustainability focused not-for-profit initiative, we are keenly aware of the strains that exist on the current funding landscape for open infrastructure non-profits. We are dedicated at IOI to exploring revenue
Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source Observer
Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies
Peter Steinberger 🦞 on Twitter / X
Anthropic now blocks first-party harness use too 👀claude -p --append-system-prompt 'A personal assistant running inside OpenClaw.' 'is clawd here?'→ 400 Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits.So yeah: bring your own coin 🪙🦞— Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) April 5, 2026
Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it | Nathan Schneider
Corporate sharks are circling around the platform we love. But there is another way: shared ownership, where the community takes control
The New Deal for the Open Source Community
Building the Economic Layer to our Digital Infrastructure
The 3 Levels of Wealth
Slack is a lot like Twitter from my vantage point. It’s a service I use all the time. It’s become an integral part of my life from both a work and social perspective. Every time I talk to someone else who uses the service they share my love for the platform. And it’s almost impossible to explain its usefulness...
What-if: crates.io paid subscription for commercial use
In @nikomatsakis' 2020 blog post, he calls for a shift in focus "from adoption to investment. (...) for Rust to really thrive, we need to see more people paid for their work on Rust teams. I wanna accept that call-to-action and propose one such opportunity for investment. tl;dr: The online service Crates.io could start charging commercial users a nominal fee, collected purely through opt-in payment; no paywalls or licensing changes. How crates.io could turn a profit without hurtin' anybody ...
Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong | TechCrunch
It’s time to hold companies to a higher standard when it comes to APIs. As software "eats the world," it seems like it’s not enough for a business to just serve its customers and hopefully make a profit, they also have to be “platforms” -- and, as any developer would respond, these days you just can’t be a platform without an API.
How to Make Money from Open Source Platforms - Linux.com
John Mark Walker is the Open Source Ecosystems Manager at Red Hat. I never thought I’d have to write this article in 2015. By now, I thought it would be self-evident how to derive revenue from open source software platforms. But alas, no. Despite the fact that the success of open source software is unparalleled and […]
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Pocketstars: The creator site where payments don’t always happen
With the influx of creator sites such as Onlyfans, rivals have been popping up everywhere. However, all are not equal and it’s vital that…
Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
