Happy to chat about it anytime, and please let me know if I can help!
It should go without saying that I don't think this is the only route for supporting open-source. Linux comes to mind as perhaps the most successful open-source project of all time, and it is backed by a non-profit foundation funded by member companies. (for example Docker inc. is a small member of the foundation, so a small fraction of the $15m we raised will pay for a small fraction of the salary of a core linux maintainer).
It should go without saying that I don't think this is the only route for supporting open-source. Linux comes to mind as perhaps the most successful open-source project of all time, and it is backed by a non-profit foundation funded by member companies. (for example Docker inc. is a small member of the foundation, so a small fraction of the $15m we raised will pay for a small fraction of the salary of a core linux maintainer).