This is a bon mot. Not entirely sure I agree with it, particularly given the spectrums of intensity of founding vs. maintainership, but there needs to be a rethink of the desirability of having agents of for-profit companies routinely expect free labor from professionals.https://twitter.com/feross/status/1172185645705359362 …
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And I’ll admit to a little bit of “If my accountant made a considered decision to just do my taxes for free I’d probably say ‘Well, you’re a professional, clearly you have thought that through’ but I’m fixing an OSS dev’s business at expense of mine due to presumed incapacity.”
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I would like our community to develop and replicate the social technology it takes to turn being an OSS maintainer of a successful project into a viable career path, like running a SaaS company, being a startup founder, or taking AppAmaGooBookSoft’s shilling are all options.
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I've been working on a project to help OSS devs do exactly this. Any chance you have that advice written up anywhere?
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