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Re:An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software by mperham on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:11PM (#17242105)
Apache committers are almost all employed to work on the projects, a patronage model. Nothing wrong with the patronage model as long as you realize you work at the behest of the King. Mozart and Bach, for instance, spent much of their life searching for jobs and/or patrons to support their musical efforts.
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Re:An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software by sixdimensional on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:21PM (#17242193)
I have to admit to not knowing exactly how the projects and people for Apache Foundation are compensated, so thank you for sharing that.

I think you're absolutely right and perhaps I brought up the example of the Apache Foundation as one that seems to be working, but even it too is quite different from the model that OP was proposing.

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