Honestly, I don’t understand the entitlement that causes someone to have to write this.
Having experienced the “overwhelmed with requests” thing myself, I now find myself thinking anyone who becomes demanding of open source maintainers is not seeing reality. These folks have day jobs, they don’t work for you.
If you’ve implemented my library in a mission critical part of your system, then feel free to fork & fix or pony up the dough. Otherwise you’ll get the update (if it should be updated at all) when/if I have a minute.
This might be a bit hostile but truly, c’mon people.
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.
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 ...
Having experienced the “overwhelmed with requests” thing myself, I now find myself thinking anyone who becomes demanding of open source maintainers is not seeing reality. These folks have day jobs, they don’t work for you.
If you’ve implemented my library in a mission critical part of your system, then feel free to fork & fix or pony up the dough. Otherwise you’ll get the update (if it should be updated at all) when/if I have a minute.
This might be a bit hostile but truly, c’mon people.