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> The ones who are responsible and doing the heavy lifting and taking the heat when things break are the often unpaid maintainers. Only 13.3% of all changesets
by etra0 2y ago
> The ones who are responsible and doing the heavy lifting and taking the heat when things break are the often unpaid maintainers.
Only 13.3% of all changesets are from people that are either unemployed or their job is unknown [1].
Even greg k-h said that most of the development is backed by big companies so the argument of 'poor unpaid maintainers' doesn't go too far.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1004998/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1004998/