Paying a maintainer must not buy a say in the project’s direction; funding and governance have to be kept as separate as possible.

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• Funding should pay for maintenance, not features, because every new feature adds to the burden the money was meant to relieve. FVFilippo Valsorda17 Mar 2022similar wording
• If a company wants a maintainer to work to its standards, it has to start paying them under a different licence first. TDThomas Depierre31 Dec 2022similar wording
• Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem. DDDrew DeVault22 Aug 2018similar wording
• A project that skips forming a foundation still has to formalise its governance, or it drifts into a tyranny of structurelessness. NANadia Asparouhova31 Oct 2018similar wording
• Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support. FVFilippo Valsorda2 Feb 2023similar wording

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