[stared]

Just curious, what is Zotero's business model (as open-source software for academicians)?

It's most direct competition, Mendeley, has always been closed-source, and then got acquired by Elsevier.

To make it clear: I love that Zotero is open-source. And I am happy it is growing (I remember the early versions, well over a decade ago, when I was writing my Master's thesis). I am just curious if they are based mostly on the storage payments, grants, or voluntary work.

[dstillman]

Early versions were grant funded, but the project has been fully supported by storage subscriptions — including institutional subscriptions — for years. (Lots of invaluable volunteer work as well, but there's a paid dev team.)

[forgotMyAccName]

I'd be interested to learn more about Zotero's history and whole space. Do you mind if I reach out to you with more questions? Email's on my profile :)

[montalbano]

I pay them for cloud storage so that all my books + papers are backed up and synchronised between my computers.

The free storage is pretty generous but I exceeded it after about 6 months of use.