[Xmd5a]

> when you give away your work and time for free

> I gave away ... the reward was

You're expecting a reward for your charitable work. A grocer faces its own hardship too (the late night alcoholic who trashes one of your aisle), but it's made bearable by the flow of income this provides.

Get paid. Like seriously. At least make the companies pay. You seem to be in exceptionnally successful with your project and well connected, why not try to start a kind of open-source consortium with other maintainers and companies to try to get some momentum into normalizing the fact companies should pay for the libraries they use. Surely, any company can throw 10k a year into open source projects, there must be a solution that doesn't leave people like you disgruntled.

[izacus]

Civil behavior and thanks isn't a reward. It's the lowest of baselines for being human.

[47282847]

And yet it is an expectation, a wishful fantasy, that will lead to endless loops of disappointment unless we let go of it, face reality, and deal with it in other more productive ways. Not all people will always act “civilized”.

[cybercatgurrl]

get paid for your work

especially under capitalism