Couldn't we mash something like [flattr](https://flattr.com/) into the package managers ( npm, pip, cpan etc.)?
That would give the companies/users an option of regularly contributing a fixed budget to x FOSS projects without having to track down who/where/how for each dependency. The org collecting the micro payments distributes once a month to project maintainers with commit privileges.
For static libs, the project maintainers recursively use the same mechanism, the money trickles all the way down the dependency tree.
That would give the companies/users an option of regularly contributing a fixed budget to x FOSS projects without having to track down who/where/how for each dependency. The org collecting the micro payments distributes once a month to project maintainers with commit privileges.
For static libs, the project maintainers recursively use the same mechanism, the money trickles all the way down the dependency tree.