Replying to Avatar Joshua Leung

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Good observation! Certainly once you get to the point of having a somewhat well funded foundation, it does change the balance a bit.

On one hand, it's good that people who have spent a considerable amount of their lives working on a project can start getting paid for their efforts if they want that to be their career. However, it does also mean that you're less likely to retain others who might've contributed before, but now might not bother (with all the bureaucracy + pay-politics)

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> Once you get to the point of having a somewhat well funded foundation, it does change the balance a bit

I don't think it's so much of a problem inside a single, large project (eg Wikipedia or Mozilla), where a combination of cultural continuity and pre-established relationships can smooth the waters. Where it really bits is when new projects are being formed, and people are coming in with *very* different (and usually unconscious) assumptions about how a dev community works.

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