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How do OSS devs support themselves without money?
by happyraul 2y ago
How do OSS devs support themselves without money?
- pennomi 2y agoThe Stardew Valley gambit - quit programming and take up subsistence farming.
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- nolist_policy 2y agoGood luck. Farming is a hard business if you want to make money. And you'll need money for electricity, fuel, medicine, etc.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoThe same way you can make model trains and not make money.
- elaus 2y agoUsually they are supported by donations, therefore they don't need to sell their user's data or their software.
- prepend 2y agoI have an employer who pays me to do thing X. And they don’t care that I also work on thing Y a little bit. I think there’s lots of software written by people who have jobs and code because it’s fun. For example, Linus Torvalds made Subsurface [0] as open source. He had a job while he made this. He didn’t get paid for it directly, but it’s not like paying him extra would make it better. [0] https://subsurface-divelog.org/ https://subsurface-divelog.org/