Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to
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What happened
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Timeline
- First appeared on LobstersLobsters
- Discussion started on Hacker NewsHacker News