I don’t need to - there’s nothing in the mit, gpl etc licenses that forces someone to pay something
I only pay if I want to
there are no laws in any country that control my individual decision to donate money to some software, software is work tools that’s all
‘I can be making money from tiddlywiki courses’, this does not force me to donate something to tiddlywiki
I can be an end user and not a developer, so I don’t need to pay a donation to the project
So…
I can have several reasons - all these reasons don’t affect the value of tiddlywiki, value is one thing, price is another.
Just because something is open doesn’t mean it won’t be paid for, but it also doesn’t mean it should be paid for.
Do you want to force someone to pay something?
make a closed source project. but know that money not something fixed and unchanging
open source with restrictions like open core, technical training program, etc. but know that donations are not something fixed and unchanging
foss code. but know that donations are not something fixed and unchanging
In all these cases, it must have value and not just a price
See? the representation, the value? value is something of representation. It has nothing to do with knowledge directly, not even the amount of work you do. It’s a perception of reality that people have of you.
So… In my case, although this perception has several criteria… there are several social, philosophical, cultural criteria, etc. In my case… to be a programmer I did: ‘courses’, ‘I participate in projects of various types’, ‘I created my software’, ‘I work as a freelancer’ etc. - that doesn’t make me better or worse than anyone else, only I have the perception of being a programmer.
You can use this same definition/concept for paid, foss, open source software. So… Why do people use tiddlywiki? - This type of question gives some insights into how to provide money to tiddlywiki as I mentioned here: UX/Product questions