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Right around the time that we were getting started with Tidelift, the New York Times published a compelling editorial entitled “Let’s Get Excited ...
Donald Fischer
by Donald Fischer
on March 7, 2019

Donald Fischer

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VICE Motherboard on the business of funding open source development

By Donald Fischer on February 19, 2019
Daniel Oberhaus at VICE Motherboard published an extensive essay last week delving into the history and future of open source development. It’s a ...

$25m to scale Tidelift for open source creators and users

By Donald Fischer on January 7, 2019
Seven months ago, we announced $15m of Series A funding for Tidelift, with the mission of making open source work better—for everyone.

$1m to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift

By Donald Fischer on September 18, 2018
Open source can be puzzling. It's now widely accepted that open source software is everywhere. Yet almost every day there is a new passionate debate ...

Open source: the rise of the rest

By Donald Fischer on September 6, 2018
Linux, Kubernetes, Kafka, React. These star open source projects attract millions of dollars in venture capital, corporate donations, and in-kind ...

Why do people pay for open source?

By Donald Fischer on July 10, 2018
The free ride opportunity Free riding is practically the definition of open source software. (Well, there is a definition in fact, but bear with me.)

WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record

By Donald Fischer on June 6, 2018
VS Code, Typescript, thefuck? What do each of these have in common? They’re all popular open source projects Microsoft has contributed to, and they ...

Tidelift raises $15m Series A for a better open source business model

By Donald Fischer on May 22, 2018
Today we’re announcing Tidelift’s Series A financing, co-led by General Catalyst, Foundry Group, and Matthew Szulik, former Chairman and CEO of Red ...

What professional teams need when using open source

By Donald Fischer on April 5, 2018
Our mission at Tidelift is to make open source software work better—for everyone.

Announcing the Tidelift Subscription

By Donald Fischer on February 28, 2018
At Tidelift, we care deeply for open source software.

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