Big tech companies invest a lot of effort to sell us the point that every
good programmer
must have their own open source project. Many programmers have open source side projects, but quite few of them can explain why they waste their time on it. As a result, they work for free, to make big tech rich. Actually, open source can't make money for programmers, but may be useful as a promotion tool for them.
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
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