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Discussion on: What are your thoughts on how open source maintainers solicit for financial support?

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Scott Simontis

I think it's only fair that there is an option to pay people working their butts off, generally on their own time, for their efforts. Open-source can be a really cruel world. People getting pissed off that you won't add insane features on their behalf, expecting instant bug fixes, refusing to read documentation, mocking your code...it's really easy to get discouraged and I've known a number of people who stopped contributing to open source for a combination of the above.