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Comment by coleifer | Hacker News Reader

Why have programmers (with jobs, usually) become the modern-day mendicants, begging pizzas and beer off of passers by? Or maybe they're like buskers, peddling their amateur/down-home status? What is the "donations" thing about? Doesn't it make people (with jobs) feel ashamed? Can you really say you're in open source, if you've got your little cardboard sign and upside down hat on all your projects?

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It is better to give than to receive! Let me know if you want more, I can riff on this topic for...hmm... at least 250 words.

> Can you really say you're in open source, if...

...your source is open? Yeah, probably.

Its nice to get some money from a side project. Might make you work more on it.

yes, exactly. Why do musicians, who have a job (e.g. as a teacher) charge for concerts they give in their private time?

Sure, they invested time and money into into it, but they have a JOB which should pay their rent. Pretty rude for them to ask the audience to contribute back.

#sarcasm

Wait, are you being serious? Im speechless

You mean it's shameful to receive money directly from the users, and respectable people must have an intermediary for it?

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