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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I think quite a bit of the change has to come from the OSS community and maintainers. Bluntly, there’s a value pie to be cut, and if we persist in saying “Pie cutting is beneath me; some business should handle that, and I will keep myself aloof from commercials” then crumbs.
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I always feel a little conflicted here with my entrepreneur hat on. When I was running a company I sent $X0k to OSS projects I used, usually after educating them what they’d need to successfully invoice a company.
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Replying to @kishorelive
Literally looks something like this.pic.twitter.com/UBbhNdOicr
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(There are a lot of ways to make that look more professional, and it being handwritten means it is basically guaranteed to generate a follow up from Accounts Payable, but that quick freehanded example has everything you’d need to get $1k out of a US company given they agreed.)
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