Ask HN: Open-source work from free to getting paid

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34780859 (Core-JS)

Always admire anyone who contributed to the open source community.

There have been tons of discussion on FOSS and pay on the works that's bee done on HN.

Without FOSS, the development of software, startups and big techs won't be imaginable.

How to make free and high-quality open source work sustainable?

If some firms benefit from open source project and need a more specific sets of features, they can pay the contributors under some agreement.

How many organizations are just doing that?