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And yet… here we are. A more accurate headline: “It’s hard to make a living off most open source projects”. As for the projects themselves, enough of them are d
by asplake 4y ago
And yet… here we are. A more accurate headline: “It’s hard to make a living off most open source projects”. As for the projects themselves, enough of them are doing just fine.
- ankitmundada 4y agoProbably they're. But majority of the projects are not. Most of them are not even asking for it. Check this - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse20-donations.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse20-donations.pdf Just 0.2% npm packages asked for donations in 2019.
- asplake 4y agoIn other words, the vast majority of projects are sustained by something other than donations, and the article has an unsustainable definition of “unsustainable”.