There's a problem in the D economic system

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 at 21:22:38 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> This is a bold, very bold post.
>
> I think there's a problem in the economic system of the D lang 
> foundation.
> And because of this problem I'll stop contributing to the 
> compiler and the standard library.
>
> Basically what has opened my eyes is this situation: like often 
> I have money problems. Since six months I have fixed something 
> like 50 dmd bugs. So a natural reflex was to contact the D 
> foundation, to ask for a little "bounty".
>
> The reply from the foundation was something like : "we cant do 
> that because now we are a legal entity and also this would make 
> other contributors jealous".
> Ok so I propose a serious project... I even reserve **three 
> weeks** for it... No replies nothing.
>
> So you've lost me. If someone in needs cant even get 50 bucks 
> from the foundation, in retribution for 50 bug fixes, there's a 
> serious problem.
>
> Goodbye.
>
> Basile B.

Well, honestly I agree with the foundation on this one.

It's great that you've done all that work BUT you can't expect 
something in return for voluntary job, regardless of how much 
work you did.

If you didn't want to do it for free you should probably have 
consulted with them beforehand to have a paid agreement of some 
sort.

Yeah it sucks not to be paid for a lot of work you did BUT D is 
built on voluntary work which means you shouldn't expect anything 
at all in return for your work.