Is the cost negotiable?

Posted Oct 9, 2024 0:14 UTC (Wed) by yeltsin (guest, #171611)
Parent article: The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

That $2000 figure will need adjustment for purchasing power. It's a massive amount of money in many parts of the world, and $170/month is a significant chunk of a junior developer's salary in my backwoods region, to give you a more concrete example. But maybe this market is one they can do without since we can't help much anyway.

Is the cost negotiable?

Posted Oct 9, 2024 4:24 UTC (Wed) by shironeko (subscriber, #159952) [Link]

as with all charitable donations, don't donate something you can't afford.

Is the cost negotiable?

Posted Oct 10, 2024 9:09 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

If you look at the original blog it estimates more like 1-3% of the total employee compensation. So for the US that $2,000 might seem reasonable, but for just about anywhere else that's way too high. I think 2% of whatever the local compensation is is reasonable though.