Post #4106005
2026-07-26 05:31 UTC
Tidelift, Patreon, Github Sponsors, KoFi et. al. lay down a patchwork of "it's like a professional services contract / it's like a fan club / it's like a SaaS subscription / it's like busking" metaphors that don't quite hang together, partially because everyone individually defines what their specific expectations can be, one at a time, and there's just … not a lot of discussion of harmonizing these
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 05:32
really would like to see a lot more of that cagey energy that people bring to legal recommendations being brought to discussions around open source infrastructure. "This is not formal technical advice; I am a maintainer, but I'm not YOUR maintainer"