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The incompatibility of open core and profit
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I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
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Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
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How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
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Give nothing, expect nothing: Gitlab latest punching bag for entitled users
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Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
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How to Pay Professional Maintainers
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The Asymmetry of Open Source
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“Open source” does not mean “includes free support” (2020)
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Why Kreya isn't open source
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Making Open Source economy more viable with dual license collectives
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Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
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Why don't you accept donations?
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“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”
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Funds for Open Source
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Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software
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Open source projects should run office hours
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The unusual way I'm funding my open source work
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Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
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Sponsoring Open Source Developers
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A few ways to make money in FOSS
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Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
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How to build an open source business
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The cult of the free must die
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
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Seven Stages of Open Software
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Why designing for open source can be difficult
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Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
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The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
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Recap of the `funding` experiment
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I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects
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Software Below the Poverty Line
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Paying for Open Source Contributions
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Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
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Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science
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Turning a side project into an open-source project
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Give away your code, but never your time
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A plan for open source software maintainers
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Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free
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“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”
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While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (2014)
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Open Sourcing a Failed Startup
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The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
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Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free
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How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
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The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community
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Designing Open Source
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When GitHub kills Open Source
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Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub?
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Funding Clojure 2010
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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
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EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
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On "Owning" Software
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Paying people to work on open source is good
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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
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Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution
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The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source
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I'm giving up on open source
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Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
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Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm
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DevRel at HuggingFace
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
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