Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee
by robmensching on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:14PM
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> It looks a bit similar to the RedHat model
Yes, very good recognition. The Open Source Maintenance Fee follows several of the paths RedHat paved long ago.
> This may give CTOs an easy way to expense such support
I'm finding it actually gives the CTOs (or someone a bit lower in the chain) the _requirement_ to pay like they always wanted to before. Said another way, in the past, many devs/leads/managers would say, "Oh, I'd like to sponsor this project but I can't get through procurement." With the OSMF, now they have the forcing function to help them through. This is not hypothetical, I've had companies tell me exactly this.
> becoming a GitHub sponsor is more involved than many would like;
GitHub Sponsors is great... except for a few very real cases where it is not. This is on my radar to improve over time.
Yes, very good recognition. The Open Source Maintenance Fee follows several of the paths RedHat paved long ago.
> This may give CTOs an easy way to expense such support
I'm finding it actually gives the CTOs (or someone a bit lower in the chain) the _requirement_ to pay like they always wanted to before. Said another way, in the past, many devs/leads/managers would say, "Oh, I'd like to sponsor this project but I can't get through procurement." With the OSMF, now they have the forcing function to help them through. This is not hypothetical, I've had companies tell me exactly this.
> becoming a GitHub sponsor is more involved than many would like;
GitHub Sponsors is great... except for a few very real cases where it is not. This is on my radar to improve over time.