Open Collective's funds for open source

Open Collective has put out anannouncement describing its "Funds for Open Source" initiative, whichis aimed at making it easy for corporations to fund the work of individualdevelopers. "Big companies call the process for paying for stuff'procurement'. It's often pretty involved, with contracts, invoices,purchasing order numbers, and bureaucracy-a painful thing to go throughrepeatedly for small amounts. It's practically a blocker. It is so muchsimpler and more practical to ask corporations to make one large payment,to one vendor. Make it easy and companies will invest more."