"Paying people to work on open source is good, full stop, no exceptions. We need to stop criticizing maintainers getting paid, and start celebrating. Yes, all of the mechanisms are flawed in some way, but that’s because the world is flawed, and it’s not the fault of the people taking money. Yelling at maintainers who’ve found a way to make a living is wrong." #Technology https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon