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Or just start a company and make money from your code. The code can still be open source and if you really want to write free software then just do it when you

Or just start a company and make money from your code. The code can still be open source and if you really want to write free software then just do it when you have enough money.

JofArnold 9y ago
At time of writing the above comment is getting down votes. Why? Is it the “just” bit people are having issues with?
- allannienhuis 9y ago
  Yes, I think so. 'just start a company and make money' is exceptionally non-trivial. 'just' is usually used to infer the subject is easy. "It's not hard; just do it!" That type of phrasing can also be used sarcastically or meanly, so people may have interpreted it that way. "Why can't you do this? Just make it work!"
- tenkabuto 9y ago
  I suspect that it's the "just", for reasons that sibling commenters have discussed. But the original comment might also wrongly come from the perspective that a given developer ought to tie themselves to a particular project by creating a business around it. Many projects are created and/or maintained by developers working on a broad number of projects, so total productivity might decrease if developers were settle down with only one or two projects which they're able to build a business around.
- spacelizard 9y ago
  Because it's free as in freedom, not free as in price. Most popular free software is written by employed developers working for companies.
Cyberdog 9y ago
I personally don't like the "company" part of my work. I wish I could just write code and not have to deal with finding clients and signing contracts. If I could do as the author does and just take direct payments to work on an OSS project, I would. Maybe some day…