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.
Kyle Mitchell pointing at this post “ It’s fair to say I’m biased, a bit of a seldo fan. I was his “battle lawyer” for npm, which he co-founded and I represented for several years. I admire his frank assessment of some of that experience in-post, but there’s lots more there to think about, besides.”
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Money, Money, Money - Writing software, in a rich (wo)man's world by Russell Keith-Magee
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 ...
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