A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. Of course we need to be paid top doll

A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. Of course we need to be paid top dollar. We donate our (finite) time and mental resources at the cost of family life, etc. to integrate and master 9 Javascript libraries, 8 messaging formats, 7 architectural patterns, 6 programming languages, 5 package managers, 4 cloud platforms, 3 operating systems, 2 caching tools, and 1 HTTP server to power it all. Along the way, the creators of quality OSS benefit from the popularity of having thousands of adherents donating their collective millions of hours and trillions of neurons learning their software packages and providing fixes, ideas, and polishing to their product. And once the users have all 45 of those tools successfully integrated over years of effort and lessons learned, along comes an OSS creator who writes the newest 9 Javascript libraries...