Having security and vetting make it much easier to get corporations to pay for a Tidelift subscription - it means that you get something tangible to point to, j

Having security and vetting make it much easier to get corporations to pay for a Tidelift subscription - it means that you get something tangible to point to, justifying the purchase. CFOs are more reluctant to pay for just straight up donations, which is why some projects sell "support", etc... Your service is a great idea and I would love to see it take off - and I think you'd make it much easier for developers to get work to pay for a subscription if you provided some tangible feature in return. Just start with something simple and completely automated - like license checking. Startup's don't generally do this initially, until at some point some compliance person makes them - and then the CTO needs to get someone to setup a bunch of tedious license grovelling stuff. No one wants to do it and it's annoying - people will pay for it.