You don’t get to decide on someone’s salary for this kind of work. The value should be determined by the market. If 10,000 big companies find curl useful and they all value on a $10,000 contribution then curl should receive 100 million.
I am personally all for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars if the companies are up for it.
Mm, ok, sure, yeah. Well, I just don’t think salary is what we should benchmark it off.
> … equal any number of months or …
I agree it’s not. But for two reasons, one we shouldn’t be benchmarking it off salary. Two: companies should pay what they value, not about salary. It could be a lot more than salary. It could be a lot less. It should be: What’s the value of this OSS to the company?
> … appease …
Sure, right? I just think let’s not keep talking about salary. This is a different costing.
> … 100s 1000s or even 1000000s …
Great, man! Me too ;p :) xx ;p