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> Why should this one developer collect payment but not everyone else who contributed it? Exactly, no one said _only_ the lead maintainer should be compensated
by Osmose 5y ago
> Why should this one developer collect payment but not everyone else who contributed it?
Exactly, no one said _only_ the lead maintainer should be compensated. _All_ of the labor, not just the labor that happens to have a day job that benefits from it, should be compensated. That includes non-coding labor like support or community management, too.
- kristjansson 5y agoThat’s just a a software development business. Open source exchanges labor for conditions the use of the product of that labor. If you want to exchange labor for money then exchange labor for money