Comment by throwaway2037

I do know why your post is downvoted, and I disagree with it. Here is my upvote.

I read the link that you shared. This is genius. To quote:

    > Community backed
    > Fody requires significant effort to maintain. As such it relies on financial support to ensure its long term viability.
    > It is expected that all developers using Fody become a Patron on OpenCollective.

I can remember years ago reading some posts/writings from none other than Richard Stallman (yeah, that guy). He was talking about charging people for a copy of the source code to your open source project. At the time, I thought it was weird and did not make sense. This is basically the same thing but in 2026. After watching so much bullshit around open source projects (basically, assholes expecting free service for whining the loudest), I have come to the conclusion that "money talks" and helps to realign incentives that are warped by open source.