Open Source developers are human too!

http://www.pseudorant.com/joomla-money-opensource

I recently read an article by Paul at Pseudorant expressing their disappointment at how Joomla Open Source Developers (OSDs)charge for their work, questioning their Open Source-ness (is that a word?), and calling them greedy because they wanted to receive a fair compensation for their work.

It was, sadly, filled with the sort of hypocritical entitlement syndrome thinking that permeates the Open Source consumer environment. Most OSDs themselves don't feel this way, it is typically only consumers who do so, though many of them are fellow developers themselves.

Now this isn't entirely the author's fault, as thousands, if not millions, of others feel the same way. But I personally feel that Open Source will never come into it's own and truly flourish unless this thinking is changed.

Original Source: Nekkid Ninjas