Anyone with a GitHub account can sponsor anyone with a sponsored developer profile through a recurring monthly payment. You can choose from multiple sponsorship tiers, with monthly payment amounts and benefits that are set by the sponsored developer.
That's a little surprising since, by definition, open source code can be freely shared by anyone. Red Hat makes money by selling support for its open source products, while companies like Facebook and Google make money on the services they build atop open source code. But even as some companies build multibillion-dollar businesses atop freely available code, other open source projects are the work of hobbyists in their free time.
"The way you become an open source maintainer is often accidental," says GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who joined the company from Microsoft when the acquisition closed last October. "You make something great, and then you share it because you want other people to use it. Then there are all these expectations of you."
GitHub hopes to help programmers spread their wealth around with a new feature called "Sponsors" that will enable users to make recurring payments to other users, much like the crowdfunding service Patreon. A beta test starts Thursday.
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