I worked for a company that used tons of open source software. The company itself never paid or contributed. Fortunately, individual developers on the team ofte

I worked for a company that used tons of open source software. The company itself never paid or contributed. Fortunately, individual developers on the team often built open source tools and contributed to other open source projects. This issue of getting paid for the work you do hits home for me. I come from a writing background (before development), and the problem is very similar there. You're expected to write for free. For exposure. To better the community. But it sucks. People should be paid for the work they do. Good luck on future experiments.