>don’t do the error of reducing the interaction to a vile matter of money
The most important thing I've learned from reading antirez's blog posts is a certain way of thinking about the labor market that I'm guessing is much more common in Italy (and maybe in France and Spain) than where I live (namely, the US).
It's not "the Italian labor market". Antirez's open source work is financed by his corporate employers, so of course he has no need to take payment for bug fixes in his project.
The most important thing I've learned from reading antirez's blog posts is a certain way of thinking about the labor market that I'm guessing is much more common in Italy (and maybe in France and Spain) than where I live (namely, the US).