Re:How to Pay Professional Maintainers
by musicale on Monday March 21, 2022 @07:11PM
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> (pay the maintainers, pay them real money, pay for maintenance, and keep paying them).
I'm sure every business will be completely on-board except for the "pay" part (and possibly the "real money" part as well.)
Companies are allergic to anything that involves paying money, especially to developers outside the company, especially for "free" open source software, which is believed to be maintained and supported gratis in perpetuity by the "open source community."
As someone noted above, it is possible that someone who wanted to use open source software once encouraged management to believe this lie, thus turning it into a permanent and non-negotiable requirement for all open source software, forever.
To their credit, this has enabled an enormous transfer of value from a skilled volunteer workforce to tech companies.
I'm sure every business will be completely on-board except for the "pay" part (and possibly the "real money" part as well.)
Companies are allergic to anything that involves paying money, especially to developers outside the company, especially for "free" open source software, which is believed to be maintained and supported gratis in perpetuity by the "open source community."
As someone noted above, it is possible that someone who wanted to use open source software once encouraged management to believe this lie, thus turning it into a permanent and non-negotiable requirement for all open source software, forever.
To their credit, this has enabled an enormous transfer of value from a skilled volunteer workforce to tech companies.