Great article, as an open source developer myself, I totally agree with the compensation thing, I have made around negative 400 USD on my projects and I am testing it on a ROMed S4. to be fair no big corporations use my project and it isn't in a stable release (yet). but I have a feeling that if big corporations do end up using my project there not going to care that some dude in Oregon is trying to make an open source project for anyone to use without ads. To be clear I am not asking that any normal average user give any money and I don't want to force anyone to give money, I just wished 'they' had an idea of the effort put in to the software they get for free.
At my previous job the company owner was surprised JetBrains dared to ask for money to use their IDEs.
When I asked for the company to pay for the license I'll use (only) while I work there I was rejected in a terrible way. It felt like my superiors were screaming "why the hell can't you use notepad, you lazy developer... Why do we even pay you?".
Again, I'm talking about IDE I thought it would be the best choice for me to develop the code my boss requested.
(for what is worth, I ended up buying my own license from my first salary and then resigned).
My point is that some companies can't even understand why some tools cost money, let alone the hard work, sacrifices, time, money and all the rest open source devs put up to produce those beautiful lines of code... (all code is beautiful, regardless if it works or not.)
Great article, as an open source developer myself, I totally agree with the compensation thing, I have made around negative 400 USD on my projects and I am testing it on a ROMed S4. to be fair no big corporations use my project and it isn't in a stable release (yet). but I have a feeling that if big corporations do end up using my project there not going to care that some dude in Oregon is trying to make an open source project for anyone to use without ads. To be clear I am not asking that any normal average user give any money and I don't want to force anyone to give money, I just wished 'they' had an idea of the effort put in to the software they get for free.
At my previous job the company owner was surprised JetBrains dared to ask for money to use their IDEs.
When I asked for the company to pay for the license I'll use (only) while I work there I was rejected in a terrible way. It felt like my superiors were screaming "why the hell can't you use notepad, you lazy developer... Why do we even pay you?".
Again, I'm talking about IDE I thought it would be the best choice for me to develop the code my boss requested.
(for what is worth, I ended up buying my own license from my first salary and then resigned).
My point is that some companies can't even understand why some tools cost money, let alone the hard work, sacrifices, time, money and all the rest open source devs put up to produce those beautiful lines of code... (all code is beautiful, regardless if it works or not.)
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