Creative ways to fund open source projects

**Creative ways to fund open source projects**

Every engineer and tech company likes open source projects, but few are willing to pay for them. This is fine for a while – enthusiasm to support a project does go a long way – but after some time, maintainers of popular projects could burn out or just stop supporting the project. Recently, I came across two creative approaches of maintainers generating revenue for open source projects that also see significant commercial usage.Open source maintenance fee: an interesting experimentWix Toolset is a set of open source tools for creating Windows installers. As with most open source projects, the long-term financial sustainability of the project was uncertain: who would pay for core maintainers to spend time on this project, rather than on their work or other side projects. A project like Wix needs to be continuously updated to support new versions of Windows, and security and other issues must be responded to by maintainers, who also review pull requests.The team decided to adopt a relatively new concept called the Open Source Maintenance Fee...

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