An interesting wrinkle of "fund people, not projects" is that funding and decision-making are formally separated. Someone may get money via Patreon or a Github Sponsors, but that doesn't mean...
An interesting wrinkle of "fund people, not projects" is that funding and decision-making are formally separated. Someone may get money via Patreon or a Github Sponsors, but that doesn't mean their patches will necessarily be accepted. (It might be hard to raise funding if they don't have a track record of getting patches accepted, though.)
There may be an indirect effect: if they have more time to work on the project, they can do larger projects than someone working on it in their spare time.
Similarly, a business paying someone to work on open source doesn't necessarily mean they get what they want, but they can offer more.
An interesting wrinkle of "fund people, not projects" is that funding and decision-making are formally separated. Someone may get money via Patreon or a Github Sponsors, but that doesn't mean their patches will necessarily be accepted. (It might be hard to raise funding if they don't have a track record of getting patches accepted, though.)
There may be an indirect effect: if they have more time to work on the project, they can do larger projects than someone working on it in their spare time.
Similarly, a business paying someone to work on open source doesn't necessarily mean they get what they want, but they can offer more.