It doesn’t matter if *you* believe in climate change or not… Because Insurance companies believe in climate change. And so you're *already* paying for the costs of climate breakdown

The model of Spotify in particular - paid tier alongside a free tier with ads - seems like the simplest sustainable solution I see. Having paid features is the most obvious way to make money, but you want to enable adoption as much as you can. It's the same idea as companies dangling "free trial" in front of you at every turn - in a competitive environment, you want to remove barriers for users to try your product or service. This is essentially the idea of a "loss leader" for a grocery store, or any business really.

As an English professor at a public community college, I teach 3-4 extra courses a year—in addition to 6 -7 contractual courses—to supplement my salary and to make living in NYC more affordable. As I prepare to go back to teaching a full load, I need to be honest with myself about what I can actually accomplish. I spend 20-30 hours on each Noted post—while I love the work, it is a lot of work. And, it’s not sustainable for me to keep up my current pace of writing if I am also juggling around 10 courses. So, I’m asking you, dear reader, to consider upgrading your subscription. Right now only 1% of you are paid subscribers. If 5-10% of you upgraded, it would mean that I wouldn’t need to teach extra classes and could devote all of that time to Noted.

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Unfortunately all SMS/voice gateway are owned by paid services, thus there is no such thing as open-source, that I can recommend.

Many believe that companies should give more time to employees to contribute to open source, with 79% agreeing or strongly agreeing that companies should give time during work hours to contribute.

while just 20% have been paid for their contributions to open source, 53% agree or strongly agree that individuals should be paid for open source contributions

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The trailblazer-workflow gem is currently a paid feature.

We decided against paid documentation, so all will be freely available on our shiny new website.

And yes, at TRB GmbH, we do pay people to work on OSS

Trailblazer goes further and provides an approach to model entire life-cycles of business objects, such as "a song" or "the root user" using workflow (pro feature). Also, you don't have to use the DSL but can use the editor instead (cool for more complex, long-running flows).

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Anything Pwned Passwords related is free because I want maximum adoption and the cost is borne by @cloudflare. Anything related to querying email addresses requires a key to be purchased because I want to limit abuse and it costs me directly to run.

Recently the HaveIBeenPwned API has moved to a authenticated/paid model , this does not effect the PwnedPasswords API, no payment or authentication is required.

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I'm working full time on Material-UI since 2019. I was working on it during my free time before that. I hope that I can leverage my full-time involvement in the library to make it really awesome. You are right, the project is well-funded. We hope we can fund the time of more than 1 person full time in the future, with the current growth rate, it should soon be possible. We have 3 people working part-time on the project (Matt, Sebastian and Josh), plus the community behind us (+1,000 code contributors).