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badpun on Nov 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)

> I wonder why this has not yet happened with open source. If a sufficient enough part of the public uses your software, the state offers you a maintainer role. Nothing big, but enough to life on and do work.

It didn't happen because people already do it for free, so why overpay?

qikInNdOutReply on Nov 10, 2022 [–]

Because softwares ability to change are a living thing and it becomes stagnant and brittle once its left with no humans to keep it alive in symbiosis?

badpun on Nov 10, 2022 | [–]

Is there any crucial project left without any maintainers though?

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