benjamuk

Hey, Head of Product at Open Collective (and former Tidelift employee) here:

As far as I am aware Tidelift pays maintainers in exchange for a minimal set of commitments, which is used to sell the Tidelift subscription. They curate packages of ‘known good’ open source projects for enterprises and provide a set tools for users to better understand what software they depend upon.

Funds is a little more free-format, facilitating a relationship between maintainers and organisations on their own terms. No contracts, no promises, no agendas. We take on the work of administrating payments to projects and of ensuring companies have what they need in their procurement processes.

In doing so we hope to lower the barriers to the degree that we broaden access to funding for open source.

Hey Executive Director of Open Source Collective here.

I signed the agreement on behalf of >2,500 open source projects (and the communities who maintain them) because I agree the call to action would strengthen the community, not weaken it.

This is not about the FSF or the GNU Project, it’s about building a safe space for people to participate in and build a commons that is as diverse and welcoming as it is free and open.

Very proud of Andrew's tenacity and ability to offer a simple solution to a problem that strengthens the open source community rather than ruminating and/or grand standing about it.