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.

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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    3 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
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      3 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.