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Paid maintainers do more maintenance and documentation work than unpaid maintainers

In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...
Chris Grams
by Chris Grams
on October 8, 2024

Paid maintainers are significantly more likely to implement critical security practices than unpaid maintainers

By Chris Grams on October 3, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

Recap: Upstream Live in Boston

By Jeremy Rissi on October 2, 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Upstream Live in Boston last week! This was a first for us at Tidelift: we brought together a corporate ...

Maintainers are much more likely to align with the OpenSSF Scorecard when they are paid for their work

By Chris Grams on October 1, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

Maintainers are spending 3× more time on security than they did a few years ago

By Chris Grams on September 26, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

Who’s paying the maintainers? Donation programs, employers, and Tidelift

By Chris Grams on September 24, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

The more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects

By Chris Grams on September 19, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

60% of maintainers are (still) not paid for their work

By Chris Grams on September 17, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

The evolving landscape of open source licensing: What you need to know

By Caitlin Bixby on September 10, 2024
Open source software has become a cornerstone of modern application development (approximately 98% of applications contain open source software ...

The Red Hat IPO experiment to pay maintainers: 25 years later

By Chris Grams on August 12, 2024
Twenty five years ago this week, on August 11, 1999, Red Hat went public in a stock offering that at the time was one of the largest ever, ending its ...

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