jacobian on Nostr: Earlier this week I made a snarky toot about paying open source maintainers. The ...

Earlier this week I made a snarky toot about paying open source maintainers. The snarkyness perhaps covered up the underlying message, which is something I strongly believe in.

Criticizing open source maintainers for figuring out a way to get paid for their — however imperfect the tactic — is wrong.

If we're serious about open source sustainability, we need to be okay with — no, more than that, we need to *celebrate* — any tactic a maintainer uses to get paid.

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/