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>I'm not interested in spending my time working for free for some company if I think they'll end up saying "Hey, actually, this thing you've contributed to, we'

by pydry 3y ago

>I'm not interested in spending my time working for free for some company if I think they'll end up saying "Hey, actually, this thing you've contributed to, we've decided not everyone should equally be able to run this, so it won't be FOSS anymore, but thanks for the help". Thats nice but realistically paid labor gets more done than free labor. A lot of FOSS dies through neglect that wouldnt happen if someone was paid to work on it. For which a business model is required.

capableweb 3y ago
> Thats nice but realistically this project only gets maintained because somebody gets paid to work on it Why is that "realistic" while FOSS maintainers working on software for the love of FOSS isn't realistic? Not too long ago, the only ones working on FOSS were unpaid developers, at all.
- pydry 3y ago
  Unpaid maintenance time on FOSS is not an abundant resource. Doubly so for projects that experience a high rate of bitrot.