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> Whereas the community is attracted towards FOSS in order to not pay… Community comes together to co-create value for everybody, which in itself is some sort

• gitgud 3y ago
  > ”Community comes together to co-create value for everybody, which in itself is some sort of tangible currency.” In this case the community is volunteering time/resources to the project. In my experience it takes a lot of management to pull this off, with PR reviews, discussions, design road maps… etc > ”But a very high number of FOSS libraries/packages DO NOT have a community. How do you believe such projects must be sustained?” Without a community to volunteer effort, the creators need to donate. Either they have a commercial product that funds the FOSS project. Or more commonly, a highly paid software engineer gives back to the community as philanthropy