So much hate for this article in the comments. Are we really such a one sided community? This article makes some great points which hurt to hear but should be

So much hate for this article in the comments. Are we really such a one sided community? This article makes some great points which hurt to hear but should be addressed if we don't like them. Economically, it is true that paying and maintainer who is already trying to spend lots of his time on open source isn't going to make him spend more time on it. You might still be a jerk if you don't pay him, but we should address the fact that this is true to some extent. It's also a great point that helping open source maintainers maintain their product can sometimes be better than payment to achieve your goals. What open source maintainer would turn down the help of some intern willing to write all the unit tests?