A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars. And we can see this outrage for large projects as well where people constantly rail against Oracle as if OpenJDK just get developed without millions in cost to Oracle. Or outrage against Go because Google put a small logo on Go website. There are so many other examples with same pattern.
So these devs crib on little amount of money to OSS devs but big time supporters must not put any ad at all.
A lot of devs really feel open source software can be written for free while they themselves need to be paid top dollars.
Of course we need to be paid top dollar. We donate our (finite) time and mental resources at the cost of family life, etc. to integrate and master 9 Javascript libraries, 8 messaging formats, 7 architectural patterns, 6 programming languages, 5 package managers, 4 cloud platforms, 3 operating systems, 2 caching tools, and 1 HTTP server to power it all.
Along the way, the creators of quality OSS benefit from the popularity of having thousands of adherents donating their collective millions of hours and trillions of neurons learning their software packages and providing fixes, ideas, and polishing to their product. And once the users have all 45 of those tools successfully integrated over years of effort and lessons learned, along comes an OSS creator who writes the newest 9 Javascript libraries...
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