Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers

Author: Changelog Media
Published: Wed 21 Nov 2018
Episode Link: https://changelog.com/podcast/324

In this special crossover episode of Founders Talk, Adam talks with Donald Fischer. Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open source software they are putting a new spin on a highly successful business model that’s a win-win for the maintainers as well as the software teams using the software. In this episode we dig into that backstory and Donald’s journey.

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