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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by NonEUCitizen on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:00PM (#23225990)
There is the MacArthur Foundation with its "Genius Award." Richard Stallman was one of the Fellows in its 1990 class. If I recall correctly, the award was for $100K a year for 5 years, no strings attached.

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/412/

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by koheripbal on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:41PM (#23228702)
one winner per year.... yeah, that's not a lot.
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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by NonEUCitizen on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:16PM (#23230980)
It looks like there were 36 Fellows in 1990:

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search/?fellow_class=33

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