It would let you sign contracts that look like the sort of contracts that big companies are willing to pay 5+-figure amounts for.
I don't even know how I would get my employer (either my current one or any past one) to sign up for a Patreon. Do I ... use someone's corporate credit card? How does that even get audited? I can totally tell procurement to sign a contract with someone, though.
(I'm imagining that the amount of money needed to make a self-funded OSS developer viable is on the large side, and that a lot of companies contributing a relatively small amount to each Patreon isn't reliable enough for the developer to count on. But maybe it is, in which case maybe the corporate-credit-card approach would work.)
Exactly. As your link says, "anyone can do enterprise sales", but it surely takes time away from development. Someone stepping in and doing the enterprise sales for open source developers could fill a lot of gaps.
Part of what L0 does is offer a single set of terms for paid licenses, published online, based on Apache-2.0, the enterprise-iest permissive license. The diffs (lawyerspeak: "redlines") are right on the site: https://licensezero.com/licenses/private/diff
Patreon expects creators to advertise. The idea I had is that this business would actively seek both clients (who don't know they should be paying developers) and developers (who don't know how to get paid for their open source work).
