It would be having a person pitch a business or groups of businesses to sponsor an open-source project.
The overhead of communication, negotiation, and writing contracts is outside the scope of what most open-source developers are willing to do in terms of time.
Simply put, there is a disconnect between the value of the open-source software and the availability / willingness of open-source project maintainers to monetize a project.
It would be having a person pitch a business or groups of businesses to sponsor an open-source project.
The overhead of communication, negotiation, and writing contracts is outside the scope of what most open-source developers are willing to do in terms of time.
Simply put, there is a disconnect between the value of the open-source software and the availability / willingness of open-source project maintainers to monetize a project.