Not sure this is exactly the right model for OSS, but note that this is a market which is crying for a middleman, and given the general cultural distaste for middlemen in the community wanted to highlight that this is an example of where they add substantial value.https://twitter.com/myrrlyn/status/1067545062014210048 …
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I don't feel like software licensing needs to be micropayments on either end of the transaction.
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We're actually hearing an awful lot of "Yes way!" for this very model from both professional users and creators/maintainers of open source at
@tidelift https://blog.tidelift.com/1m-to-pay-open-source-maintainers-on-tidelift …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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exactly this. GH centralized a distributed factory and market; it might as well centralize the bank as well
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So like, Redhat?
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Most of the current intermediaries (even Red Hat) don't do a great job of managing the supplier side of the question - analysing their dependency stacks, understanding their risk exposure, finding ways to close the gaps. Tidelift's model seems more promising on that front.
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My friend started
@getfossa for this reason and they are doing extremely well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes. I would tweak it slightly and make it more of a co-op model. IMO the intermediary should be a non-profit membership org, not a for-profit startup.
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It'd be interesting if github did something like offered "Sponsor" accounts to organizations at some price, and then added a feature to allow repos to restrict some aspects of access to only Sponsor accounts. Not sure how the details would work though.
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