The economics of open source needs to change if developers are going to be able to actually make a living spending most of their time on it. There are just too few dollars coming into the front end of the pipe.
People who don't bat an eye at paying $10 for lunch will balk at paying $10 for a software license for some tool or app that saves them a ton of time and effort. Until this changes, open source contributors will continue to struggle to capture some of the few dollars floating around. Too many will just decide that it just isn't worth it.
People who don't bat an eye at paying $10 for lunch will balk at paying $10 for a software license for some tool or app that saves them a ton of time and effort. Until this changes, open source contributors will continue to struggle to capture some of the few dollars floating around. Too many will just decide that it just isn't worth it.