It can be really hard to find good free resources: for-pay providers are much more motivated to promote themselves.
I found it really hard to find quality stock images, and eventually found unsplash. This week I found pixabay too.
I'm sure this also happens in other domains.
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One nuance that's often missed when looking at OSS: it's mostly funded by goodwill.
It's very rare for maintainers to get enough sponsors to replace their day job. In many cases the person doing the work already has a job and is motivated by interest.
Inevitably I find some small thing to change in my code just after I've done a release.
I'm feeling motivated, I'm paying attention to detail, and stuff just jumps out. I suspect it's because I end up looking at different parts during a release.
Often the best FOSS projects to send patches to are tools that are crucial to the maintainers' workflow. They're highly motivated.