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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by psychstudio on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:17AM (#29672655)
Also: entitled users who ask if x can be done, and after a comprehensive answer which took a lot of time and thought say "can you make a demo and post the code. thanks"
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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by rs999gti on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:20AM (#29674268)
Why not reverse bounty or charge these entitled users for fixes and change requests?

If they want the patch or improvement, they should pay for it.

Log4J CVE might have been the perfect use case for asking for 50K-1M EURO for the maintainers to patch the bug, to any corporate clients this is a drop in the bucket.

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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by voakbasda on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:21PM (#29677354)
That starts to sound suspiciously like an extortion racket.
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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by LordDragonfang on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:18PM (#29678737)
Capitalism is just one big extortion racket. Pending to move to fully automated luxury space communism, that's what people need to do to succeed in the economic incentive structure we've created.
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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by tonyedgecombe on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:34AM (#29673424)
To be fair that isn't limited to open source software, I get plenty of that with my commercial software as well.
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