Simple. Sensible. Sustainable.
opensourcemaintenancefee.org
Directly fund your maintainers with the Open Source Maintenance Fee.

Note: This uses github sponsors, which is a microsoft owned middleman as @[email protected] mentioned. I heavily recommend https://liberapay.com/ as an alternative. The idea of the project is solid, though

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27040265

I personally think this is a good idea. FOSS is amazing but it needs some funding in reality. What are your thoughts?

  • ertai
    21·
    21 hours ago

    This is so stupid. you don’t pay so you’re not allowed to make the project better by contributing?? I think this person has a very poor understanding of what open source and libre software are. also, open source has not been refered to as a cancer, the GPL has, because of it’s copyleft. I have the impression this person does not really know what they are talking about.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      16 hours ago

      yeah… I posted this with a general idea of what this looked like, but after reading into it more and reading some of the comments here i agree with you. Seems like BS now.