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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.

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  1. Filippo Valsorda This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation. words.filippo.io

    Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google

    This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
  2. Thomas Depierre Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food. softwaremaxims.com

    Software engineer and open source maintainer

    Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
  3. Drew DeVault What should we do about open source maintainers not getting the funding they need? It’s a very real problem, and one Kevin has explicitly asked us to talk about before we criticise his solution to it. drewdevault.com

    Free software developer, founder of SourceHut

    What should we do about open source maintainers not getting the funding they need? It’s a very real problem, and one Kevin has explicitly asked us to talk about before we criticise his solution to it.

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