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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by bckmn on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:20PM (#36945860)
I think an alternative is to fund _individuals' maintenance of the projects_, as opposed to the project itself. Filippo Valsorda has written about this recently: https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by peter_l_downs on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:34PM (#36946076)
That's an interesting idea, thank you, I'll read through the post.
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by convolvatron on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:39PM (#36946972)
sorry. what does that mean here - load bearing
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by HappySweeney on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:11PM (#36947387)
Maintenance takes up a lot of time.
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