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He can invest time/work or money. If enough people are willing to pay someone will offer it and he can pay. If not he has to write it himself.
by ipaddr 3y ago
He can invest time/work or money. If enough people are willing to pay someone will offer it and he can pay. If not he has to write it himself.
- jwells89 3y agoAssuming such contributions are accepted in the first place, which is far from a given. It's not unusual for "polish" sorts of contributions to be refused by project maintainers for various reasons. It doesn't matter how much code I write or how much money I donate if the project has decided it doesn't care about the same things I do. Of course I can technically always fork or start my own project, but that increases expenses by an order of magnitude, which I might not be able to afford.