On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 02:40:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > > You ever get a letter from Red hat or Wine or Libre > Office explaining that you need to "hire" them to > get your bugs fixed? This is the open source model. > Open source is not a free lunch. > It varies. I guess it depends on how many people there are at the 'core' of developing/maintaining something and how most of them spend their time and earn their living.
Some really do write software for fun and really don't want to earn any money as a consequence. Quite a few are professional software people with a paid day job who work on open source in their spare time, or (as I have quite a few times over many years of working as a software engineer) provide fixes and debug things which are being used in their 'professional' work. There are also quite a few quite big projects which have paid for and open source versions running in parallel. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
