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Open source maintainers underpaid and going gray (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Never work for free, especially if you're giving charity to big corpo. Or just any organization in general. Use freedom preserving licenses that forces companies to not be too greedy. Use copyleft, everywhere. In your library, in your arts, and in your work if possible.

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