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> Paying for developers to work on some open source project that you rely on, absolutely, great idea. Where does the money come from to pay those developers to
by madeofpalk 5y ago
> Paying for developers to work on some open source project that you rely on, absolutely, great idea.
Where does the money come from to pay those developers to work on open source?
- p1necone 5y agoSomeone who wants new software to be developed that doesn't exist yet. (Or improvements to existing software that don't exist yet). Developer/Designer/QA/PM/Whatever time is the thing that actually has meaningful cost here, not the act of sending bits across a wire. So that's the thing that the market should be paying for. The difference with proprietary software is just that you can get people to pay for those man hours after release time - in OSS you don't have that luxury, and pretending that you do, or that you're actually fundamentally charging for something else is a mistake.