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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it (programming.dev)
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https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-maintainers-unpaid/

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah that sounds very unlikely to me. I guess the definition of "open source maintainer" and "unpaid" are wide open. Does it count if a company pays your salary and you are allowed to do the open source stuff as part of your job? How popular does your project have to be before you are an "open source maintainer"?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I think lots of the kernel folks are paid to contribute full time. For a while I was paid a full time maintainer on some apache licensed search stuff. Before that web stuff.

    I guess the demoninator in that fraction is low.

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