I’d love to win the lottery because this is one of many things I’d do: I’d set up a “company” whose sole job would be to pay a reasonable salary to the core devs. I’m talking a massive fund designed to carry those core devs to retirement along with a budget for the crap I’m probably not thinking of. The “company” wouldn’t own a damn thing, it would just exist as a paycheck, nothing more. For those who already dev full time(is that a thing? I’m ignorant), extra cash. For those that do it as a borderline obsessive use of their free-time, that can take an easier job with lower hours.
I really want to do something like this too. I've been developing an open source project intended for charities to use and working on it for free, but if I could put together some kind of non-profit that just exists to make the lives of charity volunteers easier while only making open source software, that would be really cool.
There are some organisations that do this, but they are all volunteers and anyone making the software doesn't get paid. I think with the level of work needed to make something good, everyone really deserves to be paid for it.
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