1. want it to be sustainably and predictably maintained; and
2. need occasional access to expertise that would be blisteringly expensive to acquire and retain.[5]
Getting maintainers on retainer
solves both problems for a fraction of the cost
of a fully-loaded full-time engineer. From the maintainers’ point of view, it’s steady income to keep doing what they do best, and to join one more Slack Connect channel to answer high-leverage questions. It’s a great deal for both sides."
I love it!
I love your business model!
More power to you, your company, and other future Open Source maintenance companies!
I am the author of https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday but being a maintainer is a journey, you make a tool for yourself, you realise others will benefit and open it up to others... time passes... and then you realise you are that tiny pillar in the XKCD comic about dependencies, and that when you make a casual update to the project that multiple security companies ping you to ask the impact and scope of the change, implications, and of course others ping you to say that it breaks their individual workflow.
I've known Filippo for almost as long as that library has existed, and I know it's in a safe pair of hands, and that Geomys is going to be a good home to all of the OSS projects that they have in their portfolio.
It's definitely a journey, how should these foundational elements be supported and funded? This is one answer to that question, and I'm glad it exists as my spare cycles were very few, I'm also really glad for Filippo being so key to it, if anyone will make this work and do a good thing it will be him and those who he surrounds himself with.
https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...
I still wish that there would be no liability until money changes hands between the parties.
According to your link, liability still may exist if the FOSS project is a "commercial beneficiary." Does this mean that there could be liability even if the third party doesn't pay for it, just because others do?
For what its worth now I use systemd scripts.
