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What is managed open source?

Take yourself back in time for a minute. It is 2007, and you’ve just finished building your new J2EE app. You get a message on your Blackberry from ...
Donald Fischer
by Donald Fischer
on June 27, 2019

Donald Fischer

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Tidelift partners with GitHub, funds 4,000 open source projects

By Donald Fischer on May 23, 2019
Today, GitHub announced GitHub Sponsors, a tool to help support open source creators, with Tidelift as a launch partner.

The closed source sustainability crisis

By Donald Fischer on April 25, 2019
Today, it is clear—any software development platform that is not open source faces a sustainability crisis.

Paying the maintainers: not just how, but why

By Donald Fischer on March 12, 2019
This afternoon at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, the Linux Foundation announced an initiative called CommunityBridge, “a new platform ...

Pay the maintainers!

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

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.)

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