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Comment by ssl-3

3 hours ago

That brings to mind one of my favorite sayings:

"It may be open source, but that doesn't mean that it is afraid of money."

It would be, if it were true. I'm not going to cast the entirety of a very large community in a single light, but there are great deal of people in the open source community who are afraid of money, or more specifically, that someone else might be making some, especially using open source code that they didn't personally hand write.

Another symptom is most projects don't have an easy way to donate money to them.