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I do think he captured it quite well -- that they are leaving it as a community project but only directly monetizing it for some people feels, well, wrong? It m
by R0b0t1 6y ago
I do think he captured it quite well -- that they are leaving it as a community project but only directly monetizing it for some people feels, well, wrong? It might be more neutral if they allocate funds for bounties and let anyone claim them, with the core developers obviously being able to address most bounties the fastest.
- ed_elliott_asc 6y agoImagine that your main source of income is trying to implement something faster than some random person on the internet - that wouldn’t be fun. What if you work on something but just before you finish someone else submits the same code. What if their code is bug ridden but gets the bounty, that would be frustrating.
- pjmlp 6y agoAlternatively FOSS generation could pay for their tools instead of expecting free beer everywhere, then such projects wouldn't need these kind of gymnastics.
- __s 6y agoNo need for it to feel wrong There are a few people who basically run PyPy development. They can do as they please. It's open source, so if you're so against it, you can make a "nobody profits" fork. Most outside contributions to open source projects are made by people who wanted to scratch an itch & then let the existing maintainers maintain that improvement. Their reward is the great software. This is still there so long as PyPy commits to remaining freely available