Comment by robertlagrant
4 years ago
It's a tricky problem one can only have when one chooses to give one's work away with zero strings attached :)
4 years ago
It's a tricky problem one can only have when one chooses to give one's work away with zero strings attached :)
That is probably true, when you live in a society where you probably still want some money for your work.
The greater implications of that might have something to do with how we get articles like "Software below the poverty line": https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Or maybe the revelations about how "well" supported the people who maintained Log4j were from the open source community: https://words.filippo.io/professional-maintainers/
That's why it's hard to be angry with companies and people trying to get paid for their work, supported by various software licenses in one way or another. I do still mostly support open source in spirit, though doing that with my wallet on OpenCollective (or GitHub Sponsors or whatever) is also a good thing to do.
No one needs to get angry at anything, and people are free to change their minds if they decide their previous decision to open source was a mistake. It's just worth remembering that this is a deliberate part of choosing to make open source software, and not an unintended consequence.