> If I'm running a business and I need something, I should be able to pay a reasonable amount of money to get it. What's reasonable as determined by a negotiati

> If I'm running a business and I need something, I should be able to pay a reasonable amount of money to get it. What's reasonable as determined by a negotiation between me and the party providing it. If I went to him and he was like, I need $10K to do this by Friday, that gives me a baseline. If I balk at the price, but I can get by if I push it to next Tuesday, can I get it for $6K? > If he tells me he can't do it at any price, then that means I can't rely on OSS as a pillar of my business. > These are the problems I wish Stallman would apply his huge brain to solving. Not saving us from Facebook. To some extent, it's already solved: you can pay for commercial support on many Open Source products if you want to, but those services are from other providers. If you open a GitHub issue or send a message to a maintainer's personal email address then almost by definition you are not asking for a business support arrangement. I actually think that a lot of these issues would be seriously helped if GitHub issues could make a clear distinction between code contributions and support requests.