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by alwaysjoe 1649 days ago
The other side is that if a large company like Google had to pay the maintainers, they would’ve rather done this themselves, and the rest of us wouldn’t have access to a free piece of code that’s literally good enough to be the backbone of the internet.

I don’t want the maintainers to work for free. But I don’t know if we at large would benefit from the alternative.