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I think that's a very astute observation and it gave me a different perspective on the situation Do you think there's a way to use the leverage of these abstra

I think that's a very astute observation and it gave me a different perspective on the situation Do you think there's a way to use the leverage of these abstractions to get better (aka decent) compensation for open source contributors I'm thinking of for instance the maintainer of Faker, who posted that he would not continue maintaining the project unless he got compensated adequately for it going forward

jopsen 5y ago
> Do you think there's a way to use the leverage ... (aka decent) compensation for open source contributors Making money from open source often involves building an owning a large ecosystem. Apple, Facebook, etc. all the big tech companies does lots of open source software. But the play isn't to make money from the software, but from the platform. Perhaps, it's that money from open source requires huge investments. Because sometimes you're basically building an ecosystem.