> It's not for everyone, so if you already bitch about being hungry all the time maybe you should just look into a day job instead.
The problem is that there's an increasingly influential movement in the software engineering community to shun not only proprietary software, but also several alternative revenue models (such as "software as a service") that use open-source code. If you're part of this movement, then making money off of donations to open-source software is one of only two known, viable ways to be paid to write code (with the other being paid support contracts).
I am not part of this movement, only attempting to provide you with some additional context that might explain some of the opinions you see here.
The problem is that there's an increasingly influential movement in the software engineering community to shun not only proprietary software, but also several alternative revenue models (such as "software as a service") that use open-source code. If you're part of this movement, then making money off of donations to open-source software is one of only two known, viable ways to be paid to write code (with the other being paid support contracts).
I am not part of this movement, only attempting to provide you with some additional context that might explain some of the opinions you see here.