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		aidenn0 on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A plan for open source software maintainers Right now there are companies who employ people who maintain OSS. This would be crowd-sourcing the money for that?

cperciva on May 11, 2017 [–]

In a sense, yes. RedHat sells support contracts and pays developers; this would create a system for people to buy support from the developers of individual projects rather than buying the "RedHat bundle".

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