I don't like terminal ads either, but I wouldn't mind them if they meant that the creators of popular libraries can keep maintaining their work without giving u

I don't like terminal ads either, but I wouldn't mind them if they meant that the creators of popular libraries can keep maintaining their work without giving up their personal lives. Monetization is still a huge taboo in the open-source community and is badly viewed by many of it's biggest beneficiaries, developers who make their entire living out of skills that consist of knowing how to use these open source and free technologies. Shouldn't the creators of these libraries that bring so much value not be able to make a decent living maintaining them, instead of working for some company maintaining a silly CRUD application during the best hours of their day, while their side project which is much more valuable to the world only gets the odd final hours of the day, at the expense of their family? If more open source maintainers could make a living doing directly open source, this would mean better quality libraries, better documented, and more overall libraries that solve more common problems. People would be able to contribute to open-source well into the end of their careers, and not stop due to family life imcompatiblity. If terminal ads would the price to pay for that, I would not mind at all having them.