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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I think lots of the kernel folks are paid to contribute full time. For a while I was paid a full time maintainer on some apache licensed search stuff. Before that web stuff.

I guess the demoninator in that fraction is low.