if they wanted to be paid, would they not release as a product, instead of releasing as open source? "hey I'm gonna give away my time and effort for free" is n

if they wanted to be paid, would they not release as a product, instead of releasing as open source? "hey I'm gonna give away my time and effort for free" is not how you get money. it's how you get geek cred or build up a resume or whatever. all fine, of course. do what you want. if you want to charge for your code, charge for it and stop asking for donations every time I clone or build your stuff. have a donation button somewhere so people CAN donate, of course. asking is very .. beggy and it drives me nuts, especially when it's from people who make $500k/yr at their day job.