David Heinemeier Hansson

Sharing code as open source is a gift exchange where the first recipients are usually the developers and their companies. Expectations of reciprocity can lead to resentment, both from developers and users. The open source gift exchange is more successful when there is clarity about the terms and a shift in perspective to treat it as a gift with no strings attached.

The open source gift exchange

I was about to hunt this article when I realized it was already published on <a href="https://daily.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">daily.dev</a>.
I’m upvoting and commenting because many of us in the open-source community need to read this once or twice and let it marinate for a while!
As is often the case, we find here, too, that perspective is the elixir of truth.👏👏👏