you should pay the people who created the open source libraries, even if they don't expect it or ask for it. Period.
As an author of open source projects with thousands of users: no. You should abide by the terms of the license, which I voluntarily chose and which does not have a secret passive-aggressive clause of "you're a piece of shit if you don't pay".
(Separately, the tipping model is awful and something we should be moving away from rather than expanding).
As an author of open source projects with thousands of users: no. You should abide by the terms of the license, which I voluntarily chose and which does not have a secret passive-aggressive clause of "you're a piece of shit if you don't pay".
(Separately, the tipping model is awful and something we should be moving away from rather than expanding).