David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

If you want money for your software, you should just sell it.

We have a perfectly fine model of commercial software that people can make that kind and then they can sell it.

But I find a lot of

confusion, let's just call it that politely, in open source contributors who want to have their cake and eat it too.

They like the mode of working with open source.

They maybe even like the status that comes from open source, but they also would like to earn a living from making that open source.

And therefore, they occasionally end up with the kind of grievances that someone who feels underappreciated at work will develop when others aren't doing enough to recognize their great gifts.

Right.

And I think that's actually also part of the beauty of open source.

You are not obligated to do this code forever.

You're obligated to do this for as long as you want to do it.

That's basically your own obligation.

It is.

There's some ways for some people that made it easier.

GitHub donations is one way of doing it.

I donate to a few people, even though I don't love the paradigm.

I also accept that we can have multiple paradigms.

I accept that I can do open source for one set of motivations, and other people can do...

open source for other motivations.

We don't all have to do it the same way, but I do want to counter the misconception that open source is somehow in a crisis unless we all start paying for open source.