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Discussion on: Compensating open source developers via GitHub Sponsors. Good or bad?

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

...as if paying someone automatically negates any social contribution they might have otherwise brought.

Yeah, the arguments against compensating open source developers strikes me as straw man arguments to conceal a sense of entitlement. "I want this software for free-as-in-free-beer, without any danger of my having to pay you for your work." But they won't say that, so they have to fabricate something.