>I just woke up to the fact that the majority of my self-entitled users were working for multi-billion dollar firms and they were not contributing a line of cod

>I just woke up to the fact that the majority of my self-entitled users were working for multi-billion dollar firms and they were not contributing a line of code or stitch of documentation. With a handful of exceptions, you can't make a living off of open source alone. And those multi-billion dollar firms will show no greater willingness hire you, despite relying on your software, which they also won't pay for. Zed Shaw has spoken about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19375895#19376190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19375895#19376190 > There was sort of like this unwritten contract in open source that we had; the unwritten contract with corporations was if you wrote open source that they were using, you got some sort of job, or consulting fees, or at least some respect so that way you could find jobs. > ... I started to realize that “No, that contract has completely been rewritten. It’s totally different now. If you write open source, you’re not gonna get a job”, and now what’s been happening - and part of my tweet storm and whatnot about open source - is that it’s gone the opposite direction, where what I see is sort of like almost direct action to prevent open source developers from making money…