I Am Not a Supplier

Re:I Am Not a Supplier by csomar on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:46AM (#34205581)

> are all maintained and "fixed" and evolved by people that can barely pay for their food, even less for basic tests ?

I suspect many people working on OSS are getting paid, if not handsomely, then enough to survive.

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Re:I Am Not a Supplier by hartator on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:50AM (#34206665)

I would be surprised if they even get a thank you per 1,000 users.

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Re:I Am Not a Supplier by di4na on Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:26AM (#34207016)

I advise you to go read the Road and Bridges report i linked in the blogpost.

As of today, the reality is not at all. As I mentioned elsewhere there are zero maintainer of autoconf since 2012, even less one well paid.

Log4j devs took unpaid time off to fix it.

OpenSSL dev lived for years with less than 10k per year.

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Re:I Am Not a Supplier by SSLy on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:04PM (#34208842)

> there are zero maintainer of autoconf since 2012,

Paul's work doesn't count?

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