Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.

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Donald Fischer – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

There’s over $1M to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift
It’s time to pay the maintainers!
Tidelift
Is React’s development “supported” by Facebook? That depends.
Havoc Pennington
Jeremy Katz
Luis Villa

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers