I'd encourage a strong "progressive tax" that could for example follow the power law: you get log(x) of what your influence is. Getting to 1x (let's say a media

I'd encourage a strong "progressive tax" that could for example follow the power law: you get log(x) of what your influence is. Getting to 1x (let's say a median pay in a given country) should be pretty easy but to get something like a $1M you would have to make software used on a massive scale. Whatever revenue you generated that is above what you got paid would go towards the less "lucrative" projects and maintainers keeping the open source going.