> This is what I hope to see happen more and more: Open Source maintainers graduating to sophisticated counterparties who send invoices for "support and sponsor

> This is what I hope to see happen more and more: Open Source maintainers graduating to sophisticated counterparties who send invoices for "support and sponsorship" on letterhead, and big companies developing procedures to assess, approve, and pay them as a matter of routine so that they can get what they need from the ecosystem. In what way is this not an ask?