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Stating your price for a given feature is not "offloading your annoyance" and I didn't see anybody implying that people asking for feaures are "lesser people" o

• dictum 9y ago
  > I didn't see anybody implying that people asking for feaures are "lesser people" or "lesser developers". I admit that I may be reading too much into the dynamic at play here. To be precise, naturalgradient did not say anything about the intrinsic value of users, but his/her comment says "people who have never contributed anything" and "supporting their laziness", both valid sentiments. The complaint is that the user is inconsiderate; I'm positing that it's better long-term to teach those users to be better users and eventually good maintainers. It's wishy-washy, but the good attitude of maintainers and other users is what taught me how to behave in open source. If your policy is to charge for features, please disclaim it in your README. It's not a wrong practice, but you should set up the correct expectations. - Because this is HN: For anyone looking for brass, this problem is muck and there's a product opportunity here.