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Just wanted to add here for those interested in this kind of thing, that we have over 4000 packages with income maintainers can claim today on Tidelift. If you're a maintainer, ctr…

I'd argue that money's been in OSS since its inception. To try to put a number on it, here's a random study that 50% of oss is people at their paid job: https://dirkriehle.com/2013…

As someone who was around 10 years ago I'd question that a little, there were lots of OSS companies then, and lots of people getting hired and paid to work on OSS too. A difference…

I think the people who really care most are doing ops not dev (though of course many people do both)

People have tried every point on the JSON-to-full-programming-language spectrum, I put some examples in this post: https://blog.ometer.com/2015/09/07/json-like-config-a-spectr... J…

The point here of course isn’t that it’s bad to make a profit with OSS; it’s that maintainers can learn from how this was done and participate in it themselves to sustain their wor…

I would say that we collect money on behalf of the companies who buy an enterprise maintenance subscription from us, and we agree to provide those maintenance services. So far this…

The issue here is that "support" is an overloaded word. Tidelift does not ask maintainers to be a help desk where subscribers can call them up directly. But we do provide certain a…

I think there's a clear mapping of the Tidelift model to this, and there's also some customer demand from people building embedded systems. As a practical matter it's a bit differe…

Apologies, I didn't see that comment before. The target customer is large organizations and the pricing is typical for that. We'll be getting a pricing page up that explains the de…

The open source part of our implementation is here: https://github.com/librariesio/libraries.io https://github.com/librariesio/bibliothecary

Our ideal is that if a subscriber is using it, we can sign up its maintainer. The Tidelift platform is built on an OSS project called libraries.io which supports many package manag…

For large companies to buy something, there's considerable overhead: legal review, finance review, management, budget, etc. That's _after_ someone at the company has figured out wh…

A crucial difference from Patreon is that this is a commercial service (an enterprise maintenance subscription). Participating maintainers help do the work behind it, and subscribe…

No. https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying has the long answer to that.

It's analogous to something like Code Climate, Coveralls, TravisCI, etc. Some companies require an on-premise version or want to run the scan themselves and only call an "upload my…

Hi, Tidelift cofounder here. This is a reason we don't charge per-package. It costs the same whatever customers report. (Which is what the Wired "Netflix" analogy is about.) The in…

That exists but it's a different, not-mutually-exclusive thing. The Tidelift Subscription is not a donation tool or money-transfer mechanism, it's a product - produced in collabora…

Tidelift co-founder here, thanks everyone for the interest. I've added a discussion of Tidelift's share to the docs at https://tidelift.com/docs/lifting/paying TLDR our commitment …

The payments are not a donation, they are earned by helping provide the Tidelift Subscription service (the set of tasks and responsibilities enumerated at https://tidelift.com/docs…

Hi from Tidelift - thought I'd share a quick tour of what we have to check out today. We think we can get to a more sustainable model for open source software, by adapting the trad…

Linux distributions have been including the major version in the name for a long time; when we started doing this at Red Hat I wrote down the rationale at http://ometer.com/paralle…

It isn't better than those categorically. But it's definitely better than them for building a multi-process desktop. "better" depends on what you are trying to do. Of course CORBA …