3 years ago

Category: Software, Business, github

It is almost unheard of for a developer to start a software project and not consider using open source components in it. Open source developers spend countless hours of their spare time, coding, debugging and documenting, only to get paid exactly $0 for their talent and hard work. Open source developers are obviously not in it for the money.

The average open source project just gets the occasional donation here and there, and the reason for that — is the value (or the lack thereof) provided to the person or company making the donation.

This is the part where some might say that this approach means that the paid subset of code is not truly open source.