GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
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A proposal suggests GitHub should charge organizations an additional $1 per user monthly to create an Open Source Fund. The fund would distribute money to maintainers based on package usage frequency in package.json files, similar to Spotify's artist payment model. The author argues current donation-based funding is unsustainable for critical open source infrastructure.
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