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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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https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-maintainers-unpaid/

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[-] Quik@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago

What’s bad about (politely) asking for donations? After all, why not let people who really want to support the free software you’re creating do so even if they can’t code?

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