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A comment on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself.

Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by donedealomg on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:06AM (#23219247)
Most open-source software is written by people who are paid by large corporations.

For example, Everybody on the Open-JDK program is on the Oracle payroll.

Yes, that's right. Large Corporations are the biggest contributors to open-source software. I know that might burst a bubble of people thinking we all sit in mommies basement coding the best software around for free, the reality is different. Microsoft, for example, is one of the biggest contributors to the Open Source community on the planet.

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by theredbox on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:09AM (#23220129)
You will get downvoted to hell for this but this is a sad reality.

Most people dont realize that open source is unsustainable. Only the big and strong (the megacorps) will be able to outcompete everyone by providing complex stuff for free.

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