Author admits they don't ask for donations and then use the lack of donation as evidence for their arguments. Amazing logic there.

Also whatever the fuck this is

By the way, next time you see a request for donations at any project, think about the reasoning in the head of the product owner.

Some of us ask for donations because we know people don't actually think about it. Fuck you for implying we're closer to being sellouts than you are.

This blog gives me righ- libertarian vibes with its promotion of "open - core" shite and how focused it is on money.

Many programmers who start working on new personal open source projects wrongly assume that building something cool guarantees users, fans, and revenue will follow. Maybe it’s because they have seen too many cool stories of influencers on Twitter and believe it is true.

It's statements like these that remind me just how different the internet is for some people. I don't think I've ever strayed far outside of the "look at this cool thing I made!" parts of the open source community. The idea of chasing fame and monetization isn't really a thing in those circles, let alone "influencers" shilling content like that.

Only posers create open source projects as a promotion tool

It is bold of the author to assume that anything I have open sourced is useful to anyone besides me, much less profitable to a corporation.

Many people enjoy programming, you know. I've got like ten reasonably-sized projects and I haven't posted about them anywhere. Because I built them to scratch my own itch, both in terms of functionality I could use and the itch to build something, no matter what it is. I'm not wasting my time, because I'm doing something I enjoy.

Yep definitely, If you open source when you are a small team or individual a company will steal your code and, with their massive teams, wipe the floor with you. That is why I like what Plausible Analytics (Google Alternative) is doing, https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses there AGPL-3.0 licence scares big tech because by using code with it, you must open source all code using or related to the code you use, and they have the means to enforce that.

Is that SLC Punk ?

This is the same as people who don't want to pay artists for their work and just say they get paid in "exposure"

If you are using open source as a company, you should pay the maintainers money, either through hiring them or directly funding the development.

I donate money to the pieces of software I use every day, because I'm in a position as an individual to, but there are lots of companies that are free riding

I THOUGHT THE GUY ON THE LEFT WAS SHELDON FOR A MINUTE WTFFF