> Ultimately if you care enough about Fody to spend over a hundred dollars worth of your time contributing to it, you probably care enough about Fody to drop them three dollars.
Fine. But if my code is useful, and it ends up convincing more users to become Patrons, will I get any financial gratification from the Fody maintainers? Or are any profits from this contribution going solely to the maintainers?
In your average open source project, backing it is separate from using it and contributing code to it. My contribution would therefore benefit all people, including those who cannot pay. But the Fody maintainers consider them to be freeloaders and unwelcome people, so I have reservations about contributing and what the benefit from my contribution would be to others. I'm not working for free for a for-profit entity.
Fine. But if my code is useful, and it ends up convincing more users to become Patrons, will I get any financial gratification from the Fody maintainers? Or are any profits from this contribution going solely to the maintainers?
In your average open source project, backing it is separate from using it and contributing code to it. My contribution would therefore benefit all people, including those who cannot pay. But the Fody maintainers consider them to be freeloaders and unwelcome people, so I have reservations about contributing and what the benefit from my contribution would be to others. I'm not working for free for a for-profit entity.