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> Requesting work in an economic context without offering compensation in some form is morally indefensible. Not even close to all open source work is in an ec

• Edd314159 6y ago
  _Requesting_ it is fine. _Expecting_ it is not
• alangibson 6y ago
  That's why I made it clear that I'm talking about this in an economic contest. If you are making a SaaS for organizing church group outings, I wouldn't expect that 'pay for your change requests' would be a great model.
• nerdponx 6y ago
  Nearly all human activity occurs in a "economic context". Doing something outside of an economic context is like that old comedy sketch about a leaking oil tanker being towed "outside the environment". Most human interactions are at some level transactional and driven by individual incentives. This is true even for personal side projects and charity work. In all Western societies and economies that I know of, it is both legal and acceptable to offer people compensation in exchange for them doing stuff for you, whatever that stuff is and whatever that compensation is. I'm sure there are human societies in which this is totally untrue, but I would be surprised if the rules of those societies were applicable to open source software development outside of very specific situations.