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Have you used them? What's their cut?
by riyakhanna1983 8y ago
Have you used them? What's their cut?
- jaboutboul 8y agoThey're not about "cuts." First they track probably hundreds of thousands of packages/projects. They set up a subscription model where they charge based on dev team size/org size and project utilization and they provide security updates, maintenance, and legal assurances for the open source projects being used. Maintainers who sign up to help "lift" sign on for certain amount based on the popularity/ubiquity of the project. They are essentially channeling the revenues from these companies and paying out the maintainers. It the same as Red Hat charging a subscription fee and providing a whole bunch of stuff around that but Tidelift is paying maintainers directly. You can read more about it here: https://tidelift.com/subscription https://tidelift.com/subscription and you can search through the packages and get some cool info for a maintainer here: https://tidelift.com/about/lifter https://tidelift.com/about/lifter I DO NOT WORK FOR THEM. Just think this is the future of sustainable open source.