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typical, you donate 154.99 grand, and people want an additional 11 cents. where does it stop?

• dane-pgp 5y ago
  > where does it stop? Perhaps after giving each open source project 11 cents? That made me curious about the numbers, and I found a paper which says "Daffara estimates that there were 18,000 active open source projects in September 2007 worldwide"[0] which would mean donating about $2000. Another analysis from 2013 calculated that "87% of projects have 5 or fewer committers per year"[1] so if we unreasonably assume that each developer only works on one project, that might mean 5 times as many developers as projects, so $10,000 to donate 11 cents to every open source developer. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4978.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4978.pdf [1] https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/22/the-size-of-open-source-communities-and-its-impact-upon-activity-licensing-and-hosting/ https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/22/the-size-of-open-so...