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'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually'
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead developers of Django, writes in a long post that he says has come from a place of frustration: [...] Instead, every time a maintainer finds a way to get paid, people show up to criticize and complain. Non-OSI licenses "don"t count" as open source. Someone employed ...
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead developers of Django, writes in a long post that he says has come from a place of frustration:[...] Instead, every time a maintainer finds a way to get paid, people show up to criticize and complain. I myself am often frustrated by discovering that some key feature I want out of an open core tool is only available to paid licensees. Dollar General's predatory business model absolutely sucks, as do the governmental policies that lead to food deserts, but none of that is on the shoulders of the person who needs milk and doesn't have alternatives.
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