On: We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers

[tnolet]

This is amazing. I'm CTO and co-founder of a (much smaller) monitoring company. We have as one of our core values that we donate 1% of MRR to non-corporate backed Open Source.

We are also Sentry users BTW.

[maximedupre → tnolet]

If all software businesses could give away 1% to OSS, what a difference it would make!

It's only a philanthropic decision because not all businesses wish to do the same. Because all are benefiting from the philanthropic efforts of a few.

If it was a standard in the industry, it would become a business decision, as innovations in OSS becomes innovations on their bottom line.

[mahalol → tnolet]

That is amazing, your company rocks.

[htrp → tnolet]

1% of MRR is a huge win. Do you make one-time payments or does it become a monthly grant?