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Programmers need to grow up and dispense with this belief. They’d like to imagine a world where there’s no such thing as sales and marketing, where they can in
by dangus 1y ago
Programmers need to grow up and dispense with this belief.
They’d like to imagine a world where there’s no such thing as sales and marketing, where they can interact with humans and especially business manager types who tell them what to build as little as possible.
So many developers seem to genuinely not understand why their contributions to software used by millions don’t magically generate income.
If you’re a FOSS developer you need to grow up and do one of the following rather than moaning about not being paid:
1. Accept that you’re not getting paid and do the work as an exercise in personal growth and enjoyment. Don’t make it your job and don’t do burnout-inducing things like providing support for free.
2. Come up with a business model. Learn something about sales and marketing. E.g., nginx plus.
3. Get a corporate sponsor and deal with having a manager type telling you what to do and/or corporate employees steering the direction of your project.
- motbus3 1y agoI don't agree. You can have a good life from Open source. The problem is that people assumes the money that keeps rails and whatever going is guaranteed and that no one should contribute too because it is free. Sidekiq has all the right to remove the support for someone they find troublesome and can harm their image. Now if another company is able to take full control is because there were never anyone else doing that. It seems pure luck that Sidekiq never pushed their own coup themselves, probably they are just good guys.