Every time a maintainer attempts to get to financial sustainability there is a revolt from the usual suspects.
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You could almost understand this if they were being asked to pay, but the sin is worse: asking them to watch someone being paid.
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People often diagnose the revolt as entitlement, and it is that, too, but the bigger factor is overweaning envy.
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People who have never even heard of the project before, to say nothing of used it, to say nothing of contributing take a shot at maintainer.
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Define "popular project"?
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"Literally any OSS project that patio11 could name without reference to Google or Github."
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sounds about right, but do you have a handy repostable link on how that number's worked out?
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Is this in reference to a particular recent event?
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Thanks to the buggy code from all the programmers.
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How do you come up with that number? Is that “What AmaGooSoft would pay for a developer qualified to write that project”?
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