Recap of the `funding` experiment » Feross.org

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.

I’m ending the funding experiment I introduced a few days ago. The idea was this: whenever users install open source software, the funding package would display a message from a company that supports open source. The sponsorship would pay directly for maintainer time. That is, writing new features, fixing bugs, answering user questions, and improving documentation. I appreciate the thoughtful discussion and feedback from the community. I’d like to share some thoughts about how the experiment went from my perspective. The problem Open source maintainers need income to fund their work. Where did

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