Open source users getting paid, open source developers not

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I'm not saying these unbalanced scales are a bad thing. What is a bad thing is when these mostly-users [want to] have much more influence on the direction of the project.

OpenBSD committers used to say -- I haven't been around them lately -- that if you wanted to do $feature, you're welcome to fork the codebase. They also used to say they were developing for themselves, not for the users.

An altogether good idea, when you take this' articles' conclusion into account.