Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
Sounds to me like a scrappy clone of Codementor.<p>I think the real way to equalize OSS software is to make it partially OSS ... maybe any company w&#x2F; &lt; 10 mill profits it&#x27;s FOSS, any company over that has to pay in man-hours (contributions) or $$ to use the product.<p>Amazon&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Microsoft and other Faang&#x27;s could easily reproduce any oss software to meet their needs using their own staff...<p>Maybe even just have a github like site to host software and each organization pays based on their value, w&#x2F; startups&#x2F;small companies under 10 million annual revenues essentially having free access.<p>Larger companies would pay a per employee fee, that fee would be divided up among all FOSS software that company uses. They could get some refunds for any contributions accepted to FOSS. It&#x27;d basically be like patreon for software in a semi-walled garden.<p>Small members could also &#x27;opt-in&#x27; to pay $x per month that would also be divided up among other OSS projects. Either random, or they could pick by grouped projects or just pick their favorites to receive a % of their monthly donation.