When you call it free labor, you’re missing the other side of the reality. A coworker at a corporation might be working for free on the project I’m working on,

When you call it free labor, you’re missing the other side of the reality. A coworker at a corporation might be working for free on the project I’m working on, but the fact that they make $0 salary doesn’t mean I do any less work when I have to interface with them and work off their contribution. Also, I’m paid $0 for the pleasure. It costed both of us. So, no, free labor really isn’t the right way to see it. It’s more complex than that. When I don’t keep up with PRs and issues, I’m deciding the pay off isn’t worth it in that moment. None of it is free. I have all sorts of projects on Github that you’d have to pay me $1000 to even clone again. I wrote them in one stage of my life that I’m not in anymore. That’s just life. Feel free to fork(tm).