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Quite a few years ago, Gabriel Weinberg from DuckDuckGo launched a "FOSS Tithe" website which encouraged companies to donate some percentage of their profits to
by elric 3y ago
Quite a few years ago, Gabriel Weinberg from DuckDuckGo launched a "FOSS Tithe" website which encouraged companies to donate some percentage of their profits to the FOSS projects they rely on. I've tried to encourage my former employers to do this when possible, or to pay people to contribute features to FOSS tools we were using. With varying degrees of success.
Now that I'm self-employed again, I can simply donate some of my profits, and am more able to contribute patches.
Sponsoring contributors to build features for your org is probably the best way to go. Your org will get an invoice, you'll get a feature. The project will be happy, and the developer will be happy.
- whit537 3y ago> FOSS Tithe TIL, thanks! Found this: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2227761/a-tithe-for-open-source--forever-young.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2227761/a-tithe-for-ope.... Looks like the original blog post is gone. Wonder if Gabe wants to revisit. :thinking:
- whit537 3y agoA couple other refs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890574 https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/11/15/120320/should-companies-that-use-open-source-software-pay-a-tithe/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/11/15/120320/should-co... I don't find the original in archive.org or archive.is. :-/