It’s 2023, US and Europe are the centers of civilized world, and nobody should be fighting for the money they were promised in plain English. It’s not even I thought/he thought situation! It’s all in writing! I’ve had enough of that bullshit in early 2000-s in Russia.
Re: next gig. I have some savings, so I’m going full open-source for the rest of the year, @borkdude -style. We’ll see how it goes from there. Initially I planned to use that money for 2+ years OSS sabbatical, but I guess it’ll have to be shorter now.