Chad Whitacre

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I'm the founder of Gratipay, an open organization with a mission to cultivate an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love. We help companies and others pay for open source—and we're funded on our own platform. Offline, I live outside Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and online, I live on Slack, IRC, and GitHub.

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Also, I was careful not to say that free-riding *caused* Heartbleed. It may or may not have, but either way, the event did uncover an extreme case of free-riding.

Let's be careful to distinguish between free-*riding* (not paying) and free-*loading* (not working). Free-loading is fine and healthy, as long as we're not also all free-riding. We've got to give back one way or another!