Laurie Voss personal blog
Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make…
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Open SourceTech Industry & Business2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2026 | Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to by Muhammad523 | 196 | 209 |
