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Most of those FOSS developers are paid by (a) consulting/support fees on the FOSS they develop or (b) working for companies which use that FOSS in their product
by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Most of those FOSS developers are paid by (a) consulting/support fees on the FOSS they develop or (b) working for companies which use that FOSS in their products. That works fine for B2B products, but doesn't translate well to Minecraft - nobody really needs consulting/support fees on Minecraft mods, because the hosting services mostly handle that, and they sell hosting at near bottom-dollar.