Subj : [$] The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers
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From : LWN.net
Date : Tue Oct 08 2024 22:00:05

[$] The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

Date:
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:47:31 +0000

Description:
In the early days of open source, it was a struggle to get companies
to accept the concept and trust its development model.
Now, companies have few qualms about using it, but do tend to take open 
source and
those who maintain it for granted . The struggle now is to find ways
to compensate producers of the software, sustain the opensource
commons, and avoid burning out maintainers. The Open Source Pledge project is
an effort to persuade companies to pay maintainers by making it a social
norm. On October8, the project is launching a marketing campaign to raise
awareness and try to get a larger conversation started around paying
maintainers.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/993073/


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