I think the burden is that Tech companies are putting in hundred of bug reports, not putting in any work and then expecting their ‘high priority’ bugs to be fixed last week, for free.
When it was the community benefiting the community, it was fine to labor for free.
Of course. Because when we’re all the little guys and helping each other, it’s fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.
Eh. We’ve always been unpaid. I guess now everyone is noticing because tech companies make billions off of our work.
I think the burden is that Tech companies are putting in hundred of bug reports, not putting in any work and then expecting their ‘high priority’ bugs to be fixed last week, for free.
When it was the community benefiting the community, it was fine to labor for free.
Of course. Because when we’re all the little guys and helping each other, it’s fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.
We’re under no obligation to bend to the demands of trillion dollar companies.
Sure. But their deves still create lots of noise in open source projects and you don’t always know where they work.
And if you don’t listen to them, they’ll use nefarious means to inject themselves into the project leadership.
True. That’s a good point.