# Offering Discounts for Open Source Work

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/offering-discounts-for-open-source-work/4436>\
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**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/offering-discounts-for-open-source-work/4436 "2022-03-01T04:41:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![grepsedawk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/grepsedawk/32/1499_2.png) [@grepsedawk](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/grepsedawk)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/offering-discounts-for-open-source-work/4436/3 "2022-03-02T08:25:48Z")

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If somebody would like to have a library created specific to their needs, I’m open to doing that work.  
Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean that work should be free.

A great example would be the fly.cr shard I made for [fly.io](http://fly.io):  
[GitHub - superfly/fly.cr: Crystal HTTP middleware to handle fly.io multi-region postgres replays.](https://github.com/superfly/fly.cr)

Fly paid me to write that code because they wanted it done, and I don’t see anything wrong with that.

In a similar vein, Manas pays for open source work. (Source: [Call for Crystal Language Devs! - #4 by beta-ziliani](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/call-for-crystal-language-devs/4366/4)), so I really don’t understand where the tone of your message comes in.

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