Load-Bearing Internet People / Loadsharers

Posted Oct 10, 2024 12:00 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)
Parent article: The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

There were many attempts to solve the problem of OSS maintainers doing unpaid work on critical systems. One of those I remember was ESR (Eric S. Raymond) "Load-Bearing Internet People" project, later renamed to "Loadsharers"... though I don't see that it got any significant uptake:

Announcement: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8383
Project page: https://esr.gitlab.io/loadsharers/