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# Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
- URL: https://werd.io/support-open-source-that-you-use-by-paying-the-maintainers/
- Published: 2022-02-23T23:17:59.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-23T23:17:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“I think I’ve come up with a novel hack for the challenge of getting your company to financially support the open source projects that it uses: reach out to the maintainers and offer them generous speaking fees for remote talks to your engineering team.” This is really smart!

\[[Link](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/23/support-open-source/)\]