Comment by vikmals
2 years ago
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
money = time_spent_on_project * avg_salary
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).