Oh, I see. So the problem isn't that Yehuda's asking for money, but that he had the temerity to state his qualifications. Again, we gotta grow up. Yehuda's con

Oh, I see. So the problem isn't that Yehuda's asking for money, but that he had the temerity to state his qualifications. Again, we gotta grow up. Yehuda's contributions to Rails 3 were important. What's wrong with taking credit for that? I'm often critical of the Rails community for an excess of ego, but this is not one of those cases. It seems pretty clear that the idea of an open source developer asking for money seems vaguely filthy to a bunch of people. I think this is unhealthy and poisonous. It condemns open source to be the provence of academics, the unemployed, those able to snatch free time away from their friends and familier, or those working at the largess of their corporate employers. That's a shitty limit on the scope of free software.