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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it (programming.dev)
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https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-maintainers-unpaid/

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

And when one does get paid to port their FOSS project you get posts like this:

"Targeting a proprietary platform first, especially one owned by Facebook, is shameful for a FLOSS project"

https://links.hackliberty.org/comment/4667175

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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