&gt; If it&#x27;s open source, why would the majority of people pay?<p>We could have paid access to the repositories. Yes anyone can redistribute it, but it&#x27;s cumbersome and it gives you a delay for the bugfixes, so people with the ability to pay will prefer the official method. Especially if they know they&#x27;re funding open-source and if they get a good service. However, to stay legit in the OSS ecosystem we need to redistribute part of the donations.