Thomas Depierre @Di4na@hachyderm.io
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"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi

The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well

In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like “unpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”. There are variations on that theme, like Github Sponsors launching, pieces that explains how the CRA will magically make companies pay maintainers, etc. It is usually cheered on by the peanuts gallery, which applaud making the Evil Big Tech pays for the abuse they impose over their “exploitation of the Commons”.

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