> [...] the plight of (non-corporate) open source maintainers who get very little money for a lot of work, while at the same time seeing billion-dollar companie

> [...] the plight of (non-corporate) open source maintainers who get very little money for a lot of work, while at the same time seeing billion-dollar companies that save a lot of money by using their software. I don't dispute any of this -- it's really obviously a problem, particularly for certain "tent pole" projects where contributors have been horribly unrewarded. I just don't think you can get from there to the first sentence of that article, because the reality of those unrewarded developers is that most will carry on until they starve rather than feel they have "the right" to money.