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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by oaiey on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:13PM (#22078716)
It is a bad example but most major open source projects are in that regard. However, the community driven ecosystems (Rust, Go, JavaScript ..) have significant components in that particular unpaid maintainer situation. And that is a problem.
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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by watwut on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:14PM (#22079412)
Go is done and maintained by google employees. JavaScript specification has syndicate behind it. Rust has clear governance, through I cant find who pays for it all.

Any big enough project will formalize relationships at one point or another - latest when they need to raise money or organize conference. These projects are too big to be run over the weekend, they do have to pay regular staff.

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