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Why must everything make money?
by zeckalpha 3y ago
Why must everything make money?
- lmz 3y agoUsually people don't have enough savings to dedicate themselves full time to a non money making project.
- hackernewds 3y agoif the project pays them, it works
- tsuica 3y agoBecause people have to eat.
- 7bit 3y agoWhy do you not work for free?
- zarathustreal 3y agoContributing to OSS is a hobby, not a job. You explicitly work for free on purpose. Whether or not you’re able to pay your bills is unrelated to the OSS contribution, it’s very clear that you’re not going to get paid for writing code that you’re giving away for free.
- willm 3y agoYou only had to read the title to know that the author of the post was paid for 503 days to work on OSS. It was literally his job.
- zarathustreal 3y agoAn example of one person being employed and contributing to open source as part of his job is not a refutation of the statement. You don’t have to read anything to know that, just use logic. To provide a counter-example you’d need to reference an open-source project that makes money selling the source code which, hopefully obviously, doesn’t exist, by definition
- wrs 3y agoHello, early 1990s! We miss you! https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/who_writes_open_source/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/who_writes_open_sourc...
- Climato 3y agoIt's called capitalism. If you have money to gift, I can take it if you don't mind and than I can help myself and others to work for free on FOSS.
- weebull 3y agoIt doesn't need to make anybody rich, but it should support its development in a fashion where the authors aren't worse off.