The title leads one to believe that it's another rant about underpaid open source developers. I almost didn't click it, but decided to blow a few minutes for th

The title leads one to believe that it's another rant about underpaid open source developers. I almost didn't click it, but decided to blow a few minutes for the hell of it. Excellent article. It needs a more descriptive title. Personally I'm not interested in monetizing anything I work on, providing support for companies, or even maintaining software. If I were sent a PR from some company that I didn't really care to have merged, I'd tell them to fork and merge to their branch and they can pull upstream changes to their codebase if they like. This way they're responsible for maintaining their own infrastructure but they can still use my work. If they're not willing to do that, they're trying to externalize their workload onto me. And I deny feature requests if they're out of scope of what I want to build, which is 99% of feature requests. I am obviously a hobbyist. I prefer personal donations. I have really considered the idea of not maintaining anything and just telling people "here's this thing I made, use it if you want, fork it and maintain it if you want." I don't even care about credit, I link to forks of my own code. I like it better that way. I like to solve problems and make cool things, I don't like to maintain codebases. I do, but I don't like to, and this approach might be a valid one for people like me.