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Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers by nulagrithom on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:25PM (#15766515)
From my experience in the medium business world (maybe 500 people total?), paying is the only option. Open source is evil. Maintaining things is evil. Writing your own code is evil. Just shell out $x,000 for support.

If I could find a way to say "Yeah, we can get 'support' for this open source library for $xxx per month" my life would be much easier.

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Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers by jaymzcampbell on Thursday November 23, 2017 @02:24PM (#15767261)
The Django Rest Framework library has taken this very approach [1] offering both corporate and individual monthly subscriptions which is then used to fund development. It appears to be quite successful in that it's allowed the lead developer to work on the project full time (at a salary of £50k [2]).

[1] https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/

[2] http://www.encode.io/reports/february-2017

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Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers by singold on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:58PM (#15768053)
This. A lot.

I work at a company with less than 500 people and for IT open source is evil.

I've seen people been told by IT to find another software that does the same thing but paid, and we have a law that mandates us to prefer FLOSS when possible...

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Re:Why we never thank open source maintainers by ghaff on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:37PM (#15766975)
You can in many cases.
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