The Unpaid Backbone of Open Source: Solo Maintainers Face Increasing Security Demands - Socket
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Solo open source maintainers face burnout and security challenges, with 60% unpaid and 60% considering quitting.

Solo open source maintainers face burnout and security challenges, with 60% unpaid and 60% considering quitting.

  • refalo
    69·
    2 months ago

    The bigger problem to me is that I have seen an untold number of open source developers that despise all manner of capitalism in the first place, so you can’t even pay them to work on things. It’s like they just want everyone to live under a rock in the woods and all be poor together or something. That’s not going to progress society very much IMO.

      • refalo
        22·
        2 months ago

        You must not be active in any chat systems that are frequented by FOSS developers then? I see it constantly across Matrix, IRC, XMPP and other places.

        • ballmerpeaking
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yes, there’s a few with some quirky opinions. All of them will take money in some way.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know the context of your interactions with them, but it is possible that they don’t want to take on the burden and expectations that come with being paid, and so it just becomes a convenient excuse to not get tangled up in working on things in a compensated capacity.

      • refalo
        1·
        2 months ago

        To rephrase what I said, they explicitly tell you they are not interested in money as a concept at all. They prefer to have none… they basically want to have nothing and wish that the rest of the world believed the same thing.