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-18 points

(and deserve it)

Please enlighten me: how do they deserve to be paid for a non-profit product?

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How does someone deserve to be paid for work done? Is that your question?

Is this some kind of pathetic troll attempt?

I will not reward that with further attention.

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There is exactly no single reason to make this personal. What I meant is that writing a free piece of software does not necessarily have to be paid work. A variety of popular software tools, including a few web browsers, by the way, is written and maintained in the developers’ free time.

“Doing stuff” is not the same thing as “doing paid work”.

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You simply cannot have a project the size of firefox without paid employees, why do you think chromium, webkit and gecko are the only three webengines

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5 points

What’s making it personal?

Stop being a sophist, you’ll have more meaningful conversations.

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Non profit means their earnings must match their expenses or be used to actually improve the product/service, not that they earn nothing at all

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Non-profit doesn’t mean that there’s no employees. They’re still organizations that have a cash flow, seek to raise funds, and employ people to serve their mission. Most non-profits have paid employees.

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9 points

People who work at non-profits aren’t volunteering.

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5 points

Non profit does not mean what you think it means

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