[$] The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

In the early days of open source, it was a struggle to get companies
to accept the concept and trust its development model.
Now, companies have few qualms about using it, but do tend to take open source and
those who maintain it for granted. The struggle now is to find ways
to compensate producers of the software, sustain the open‑source
commons, and avoid burning out maintainers. The Open Source Pledge project is
an effort to persuade companies to pay maintainers by making it a social
norm. On October 8, the project is launching a marketing campaign to raise
awareness and try to get a larger conversation started around paying
maintainers.