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Yes. We (Fly.io) are buying a sqlite support agreement. We also send money WireGuard's way. I'm pretty sure Tailscale does too.

We have also given OSS authors advisor equity. A couple of folks wrote libraries that were important to keeping us going, and we've granted them shares the same way some startups would to MBA advisors.



> We have also given OSS authors advisor equity

That's a fantastic idea. In retrospect it's a really obvious idea but I've never heard of anyone doing it before. Is this a common thing that I'm just oblivious to?


It's not common, which is stupid. We're banging that drum pretty hard though. Maybe you'll see a #1 ranked HN post about it someday. :)


That's great to hear, thank you!




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