• rhabarba@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    (and deserve it)

    Please enlighten me: how do they deserve to be paid for a non-profit product?

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      How does someone deserve to be paid for work done? Is that your question?

      Is this some kind of pathetic troll attempt?

      I will not reward that with further attention.

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        31 minutes ago

        There is exactly no single reason to make this personal. What I meant is that writing a free piece of software does not necessarily have to be paid work. A variety of popular software tools, including a few web browsers, by the way, is written and maintained in the developers’ free time.

        “Doing stuff” is not the same thing as “doing paid work”.

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      Non-profit doesn’t mean that there’s no employees. They’re still organizations that have a cash flow, seek to raise funds, and employ people to serve their mission. Most non-profits have paid employees.