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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:27PM (#20997076)
> most of these contributions aren't worth enough individually to charge for

Then why does my employer pay me even for the small bugfixes I make to their code?

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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by dashwav on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:30PM (#20997108)
Because their business model can't rely on the interest and free-time of others, so they are willing to pay you for your continued "interest" in their codebase. They aren't paying you for those bugfixes, rather for your ability to available to do those bugfixes immediately
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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by mankyd on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:29PM (#20997103)
Because you go on to fix more than one bug. And add features. etc.
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