See, that's the beauty of open source: nobody is ever obliged to do anything they don't feel like doing. If nobody wants to pay, the maintainer can just walk away. If that bothers a user, they can feel free to contribute patches and pay the maintainer's time to review and include them. (Or become a maintainer themselves using a different trademark.)
Of course, the flip side of that coin is that the maintainers are also free to try to turn their repository access into a money making machine. I don't have any issue with it, since I can just fork the code if I don't like it. It's just not the result of getting too little money and being "forced" into anything.
See, that's the beauty of open source: nobody is ever obliged to do anything they don't feel like doing. If nobody wants to pay, the maintainer can just walk away. If that bothers a user, they can feel free to contribute patches and pay the maintainer's time to review and include them. (Or become a maintainer themselves using a different trademark.)
Of course, the flip side of that coin is that the maintainers are also free to try to turn their repository access into a money making machine. I don't have any issue with it, since I can just fork the code if I don't like it. It's just not the result of getting too little money and being "forced" into anything.