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by NorwegianDude 1554 days ago
That's not hostile at all. If someone decides it's best to use your code then you have already helped them out. Expecting you to do work for free for them because you already did something useful for them is just stupid.
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It's great to have that kind of post published. I had that exact conversation just yesterday with a director who "love" open source and see it as "the future". When asked to pay market rate for the extra features he want, he was struggling to understand that 8k won't get him a few months of work and felt entitled on a discount on the basis that I'm doing open source and he is helping the project ...