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Discussion on: I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects

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Ryan Haber

When a contractor or worker comes back to me after negotiations with any kind of overage, I become very sour.

From my perspective it would be better to tell them up front during negotiations that you do this as part of the way you offer your service.

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Manuel Bieh

That was my idea, yes. It would/will be part of the negotiation process.

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Ryan Haber • Edited

That's great! I think that is exactly right. It also gives a really great opportunity to educate the client about how a lot of the work is actually done. The people who are actually making the deal on the client-side probably don't understand the full amount of work and sourcing that goes into a project.