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Paying people to work on open source is good actually
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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The problem is companies that fully take advantage of open source, as is their right, and then fully expect the volunteer dev to provide support them when they have a Sev 1.
Sure they read the license and saw that it was free, but they didn't read the part that it was free but offered literally no support.
The amount of money that my company has made on the backs of open source developers is probably in the literal billions. But we don't give fuck squat to them outside of one day a year that we contribute code back to a few select libraries.