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

In the early days of open source, it was a struggle to get companiesto accept the concept and trust its development model.Now, companies have few qualms about using it, but do tend to take open source andthose who maintain it for granted. The struggle now is to find waysto compensate producers of the software, sustain the opensourcecommons, and avoid burning out maintainers. The Open Source Pledge project isan effort to persuade companies to pay maintainers by making it a socialnorm. On October8, the project is launching a marketing campaign to raiseawareness and try to get a larger conversation started around payingmaintainers.