This is why I personally think the OSS community should be more encouraging of &quot;salary&quot; style funding. There is a loud, poisonous minority of advocates that seem to think that asking for money is just plain evil. That attitude is a material disservice to OSS in general: it makes OSS weaker and less capable, for the sake of some weird puritan reflex.<p>N.B.: I have never and will never ask for, nor accept any income from OSS work: too much shit-flinging and absurd expectations. But as a _user_ I want OSS, for its own sake, to re-evaluate its attitude towards money.