Opensource

1173 readers

28 users here now

A community for discussion about open source software! Ask questions, share knowledge, share news, or post interesting stuff related to it!

Credits

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

⠀

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Vacant@programming.dev

148

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

submitted 4 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It won't happen. What might is paying back if you use it for commercial projects.

Something like you pay some percent of your gross to an organisation and that gets split between the top level dependencies you use and then split down through their dependencies.

Software remains free for non commercial use, companies pay a fair share and the Devs get paid.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I guess it's a wishful thinking, on the line of corporations pay for the damage and pollution they create...