So the Bing cache is good and the article worth reading<p>This is however the money shot:<p>&gt;&gt; how many parts of your company’s product are coupled to the lifestyle and priorities of some lone, unpaid package maintainer? It’s something I have to think about too – in my day-job I build software on top of many FOSS libraries, many of which are probably maintained by people in similar circumstances to my own.<p>Given that my day job builds on (last count) 953 npm packages, most of which are probably different authors, not to mention servers, backend etc etc, I do really worry we are finding OSS backwards.<p>Good luck to the OP and his young family.  And perhaps GitHub can set up a &quot;pay me a days freelance rates work for issues fixed&quot; feature