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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im a big fan of "you can either pay me to fix this issue, or fix it yourself" model. Nobody should be pressured to maintain a open source project once they're done with it themselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly! In fact, that was the original free software MO. The whole maintainership shenanigans became a thing after companies started exploiting it for free labor.