Look at the core maintainers of Rails for example. Many are paid by Shopify and Basecamp, so it’s much more commercial than your regular open source project.
Which isn’t a bad thing that people get to contribute on company time.
Which isn’t a bad thing that people get to contribute on company time.
Eventually they brought rails in many commercial companies and these companies succeeded to the point they could pay people to maintain rails.
> 37signals built Rails for Basecamp and has since used it to create all their web products.
gems and bundler is for everyone though, even hobbyists writing scripts. Alienating contributors who support common infrastructure for no good reason is just plain stupid especially when those projects wasn't theirs to begin with