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Why should they make more than senior engineers with decades of experience in Berlin? Why should customers/users of the project have to pay/donate twice or thr
by kuschku 5y ago
Why should they make more than senior engineers with decades of experience in Berlin?
Why should customers/users of the project have to pay/donate twice or thrice as much for the same result, just because the devs want to live in the US instead of e.g. Paris?
- pjmlp 5y agoWhy should users of babel feel enttitled not to pay anything at all in contrast with other professions?
- _dibly 5y agoBecause it's free?
- pjmlp 5y agoUntil it is gone as developers look for a proper source of income. https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/untangling_open_sources_sustainability_problem/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/untangling_open_sourc...
- matkoniecz 5y agoWhy current Babel maintainers (not the main author who gets nothing!) would be entitled to donations? They need to convince people/corporations to donate, default is that they get nothing.
- pjmlp 5y agoWhy does the backer feel entitled to be paid for their bread? They need to convice people to stop taking it from the expositor. Why does the mechanic feel entitled to be paid for their repairs? They need to convice people to stop driving away. Why does the .... feel entitled to be paid for their work?
- bidirectional 5y agoA handful of people doing highly technical compiler work relied upon by much of the industry, while also being experts in JS probably do deserve to be paid more than the average senior in Berlin. These aren't cheap skills, the people who are this good can probably get remote work at well-paying US companies wherever they live.
- shados 5y agoBecause one of the primary "competing" project (TypeScript) is developed on payroll of a FAAMG. With that said, nothing stopping those people in Berlin from stepping up to other high profile open source projects that are looking for maintainers, raise the same amount of money, and essentially be twice as well off.