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The strange thing to my mind is not that people will use things for free given a chance, because of course they will, but rather the developers of popular open source packages are having trouble getting jobs. Back when I was a CTO, if any of my applicants could claim to be developers / maintainers of popular open source projects, I would consider that to be a major plus. Wouldn't everyone?



If you think of the world as a giant corporation, in the short term it's more efficient if these workaholics are not paid at all. Think of a typical workaholic who's always happy to do more and take on more responsibility - why would you increase their salary if they don't ask for it?




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