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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by Larrikin on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:22AM (#34818281)
How much would you be willing to pay so that Homebrew can maintain a large amount of hardware covering nearly all configurations?
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by justinclift on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:27AM (#34818322)
As a data point, they seem to be receiving about US$2k/month via Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew

From rough memory (!), I think it was around the same when I looked ~12 months ago.

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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by shepherdjerred on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:04AM (#34820441)
$2k/mo is a terribly low figure for a piece of software that nearly every dev on macOS uses.
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by justinclift on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:38AM (#34821015)
That US$100k seems to have arrived over the last year, and their overheads - from quickly looking over their OpenCollective expenses tab - seem to be mostly buying hardware for CI things, and a monthly GSuite bill.

It's also pretty likely they get a lot of their resources for free / sponsored too.

So, US$2k/mo might be fine (no idea).

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