N.B.: I have never and will never ask for, nor accept any income from OSS work: too much shit-flinging and absurd expectations. But as a _user_ I want OSS, for its own sake, to re-evaluate its attitude towards money.
N.B.: I have never and will never ask for, nor accept any income from OSS work: too much shit-flinging and absurd expectations. But as a _user_ I want OSS, for its own sake, to re-evaluate its attitude towards money.
It's absolute nonsense - so many of the most successful free/open source software projects are those with salaried employees working on it, and this has been the case for many years. The problem today is of course finding a way to fund open source contributors whose projects aren't quite aligned with the needs of a major company.
How about something like https://gratipay.com/
I.e., if you start paying; you have to continue paying.
Predictably Irrational http://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/01/15/predictably-irratio...
You don't want to pay anymore, go back to glibc...
But Google does run a security-engineering focussed bounty program: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/patch-rewards/
So if you're looking for some smaller scale rewards, that might help.