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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it
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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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We could monetize and enshitify it like everything else. We could ask if they take donations like good little neolibs. Or, we could consider that some people don't need or want to be paid for their incremental contributions to society then leave alone the developers of the best software around.
What’s bad about (politely) asking for donations? After all, why not let people who really want to support the free software you’re creating do so even if they can’t code?