I understand that the traditional route for open-source maintainers to get paid is to offer some sort of support plan to those who need it. Or accept donations.<p>However, support plans are great if you have a substantial project and donations are few and far between (take the GPG project for example).<p>So I'm wondering, is there a non-traditional way to getting paid for open-source work? Are there projects tackling this problem? Or is the only viable solution to take your code and close-source it?
There is a platform called Tidelift [1]. Basically, open-source maintainers get paid from their subscriber. This platform was discussed recently on Hacker News. You can click this link [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https://tidelift.com/" rel="nofollow">https://tidelift.com/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063250" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063250</a>