[GNC] Negative numbers

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 02:40:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote:
> 
> You ever get a letter from Red hat or Wine or Libre
> Office explaining that you need to "hire" them to
> get your bugs fixed?  This is the open source model.
> Open source is not a free lunch.
> 
It varies.  I guess it depends on how many people there are at the
'core' of developing/maintaining something and how most of them spend
their time and earn their living.

Some really do write software for fun and really don't want to earn
any money as a consequence.  Quite a few are professional software
people with a paid day job who work on open source in their spare
time, or (as I have quite a few times over many years of working as a
software engineer) provide fixes and debug things which are being used
in their 'professional' work.

There are also quite a few quite big projects which have paid for and
open source versions running in parallel.

-- 
Chris Green