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O_H_E on May 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paying for Open Source Contributions

That's an interesting perspective. I always had the feeling that it is unsustainable or unstable to rely on underpaid work.

tracker1 on May 3, 2019 [–]

I suspect that a significant portion of open-source development is paid work that meets a business need, but not the business' product. I know that what little open-source contribution I've made has mostly been stuff I had to do at/for work that was easy enough to break off and have as a separate library/module.

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