Correction: I appear to have misread some of sales copy to potential subscribers, there is no promise of individual support involved, just continued maintenance

Correction: I appear to have misread some of sales copy to potential subscribers, there is no promise of individual support involved, just continued maintenance. -- Even that "far from quitting your dayjob" amount of money could in theory impact a lot of "do I keep maintaining that lib a younger version of myself once built?" decisions. If that was the only thing tidelift promised paying companies, protects that get donations are less likely to get abandoned, it would kind of make sense. But in their sales copy, they are actually selling services (no: see correction above) provided by "lifted" maintainers, and that's where it stops being funny, for all sides involved (except tidelift). I wonder if the terminolocal proximity to "shoplift" ever occurred in their investor talks... If they ever make it to the point of regular payouts, there will likely be some hidden scene of opportunists rushing to get recognised as the maintainer of as many abandoned - or just stabilized to the point of nondevelopment - packages as possible. Kind of like the alleged scooter-charging fights (no idea wether those are real or just news-fiction), perhaps something good could come out of that nonetheless? (maintainership-hoarders actually ending up doing some maintenance)