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A token monthly donation shows appreciation and achieves nothing else; sustaining a maintainer takes a real fraction of an engineering salary.
Drawn from what Filippo Valsorda said
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What Filippo Valsorda actually said
- Filippo Valsorda Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google
$1,000/month without benefits is a nice way to show appreciation, but won’t achieve any other goals.
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↗How to pay professional maintainerswords.filippo.io
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