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The Twitch argument for GitHub Sponsors

Nadia Asparouhova · 24 May 2019

A change of mind in this piece

Company sponsorships, not individual ones, are where open source funding has to come from.

I’ve seen recurring comments to the effect of “This is great, but individuals aren’t where the money’s at, it’s companies”, which is a position I’ve also previously taken.

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  1. I’ve seen recurring comments to the effect of “This is great, but individuals aren’t where the money’s at, it’s companies”, which is a position I’ve also previously taken.
    My hypothesis: rather than individual sponsorships being a path to company sponsorships, the motivations of individuals are different from companies, and therefore should be treated as two separate use cases, and two separate products.
  2. With companies, open source developers are selling a product. With individuals, they’re selling themselves.

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