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The author seems to believe contributions of code or contributions of bug reports are a net negative for the project, while the only thing that the project need
by jamiesonbecker 9y ago
The author seems to believe contributions of code or contributions of bug reports are a net negative for the project, while the only thing that the project needs to survive is money to pay for the author's time.
That is exactly backwards. Nearly all open source projects actually do not need any money at all to grow and prosper. They simply need contributions.. of time. In the form of bug reports and code.
Take care of your users, first, and the money will follow.
- franciscop 9y agoThey do not need it, but it'd help quite a lot. If I got a bunch of money for doing open souce I could: - Not find random jobs to be able to live, so more time for open source. - Have more energy for open source (so important it has to be a separated point from the previous).
- jamiesonbecker 9y agoCause vs effect. Money is the latter ;)
- paulryanrogers 9y agoThis is true for some. Though I'm not sure it always applies. OpenSSL developers needed money to guarantee their time, yet for years it was not much money.