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The Unpaid Backbone of Open Source: Solo Maintainers Face Increasing Security Demands (socket.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Solo open source maintainers face burnout and security challenges, with 60% unpaid and 60% considering quitting.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You must not be active in any chat systems that are frequented by FOSS developers then? I see it constantly across Matrix, IRC, XMPP and other places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, there's a few with some quirky opinions. All of them will take money in some way.