Ask HN: Do companies need commercial support for open source software?

Millions of open source projects don’t have a vendor that provides commercial support (i.e. RedHat). The best support comes from developers who built the software (project maintainers), and many of them need funding.

What is the best way of connecting them? Would companies pay for support from project maintainers to improve quality and speed of their development? Would they prefer support contracts or on-demand support based on developer’s hourly rate?

I’d like to get a deeper understanding of requirements that businesses have. Any insight is very appreciated!