Is that ever a choice, though? In my experience with open source I've seen two classes of users: - people that join the community as developer, show interest

Is that ever a choice, though? In my experience with open source I've seen two classes of users: - people that join the community as developer, show interest in the code, just implement a feature/fix and push the patch - people that demand a certain feature. It's the second group I ask money from, obviously not the first. But indeed the first group is worth much more to the project.