Comment by karmakaze
2 years ago
> Open source software developers should have compensation that follows this:
money = contributions * usage
This seems wrong. Typically opensource that gets compensation is for support. That's active ongoing work. Past contributions or usage thereof isn't material. That's the beauty of opensource, it keeps on giving to the original work, and derived works.
yeah, seems like the author came up with this formular to cope with the fact that others are making way more money off his software because they found a way to utilize their oss software to make profit. Author should do the same or not ask for money.
A more accurate and sane formular would be
I'm a junior so please take this with a pinch of salt, but yeah this is what I intend to do when I do open source too.
Once I've finished scratching my itch, I will only spend T hours per week on the project:
Where:
Where the min of 1 hour is intended to "get the project off the ground", and the max is for work life balance (any additional income is then either profits, or to be reinvested in other contributors).