The other side is that if a large company like Google had to pay the maintainers, they would’ve rather done this themselves, and the rest of us wouldn’t have ac

The other side is that if a large company like Google had to pay the maintainers, they would’ve rather done this themselves, and the rest of us wouldn’t have access to a free piece of code that’s literally good enough to be the backbone of the internet. I don’t want the maintainers to work for free. But I don’t know if we at large would benefit from the alternative.