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> are all maintained and "fixed" and evolved by people that can barely pay for their food, even less for basic tests ? I suspect many people working on OSS are
by csomar 4y ago
> are all maintained and "fixed" and evolved by people that can barely pay for their food, even less for basic tests ?
I suspect many people working on OSS are getting paid, if not handsomely, then enough to survive.
- hartator 4y agoI would be surprised if they even get a thank you per 1,000 users.
- di4na 4y agoI advise you to go read the Road and Bridges report i linked in the blogpost. As of today, the reality is not at all. As I mentioned elsewhere there are zero maintainer of autoconf since 2012, even less one well paid. Log4j devs took unpaid time off to fix it. OpenSSL dev lived for years with less than 10k per year.
- SSLy 4y ago> there are zero maintainer of autoconf since 2012, Paul's work doesn't count?