[$] 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 <a href="https://www.goodtechthings.com/oss-sos/" rel="nofollow">take open source and
those who maintain it for granted</a>. The struggle now is to find ways
to compensate producers of the software, sustain the open‑source
commons, and avoid burning out maintainers. The https://opensourcepledge.com/
 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.

https://lwn.net/Articles/993073/