When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?
Funding for OSS projects is typically dire. In 2019, developer André Staltz collected data from Open Collective and GitHub to assess project revenues. Over 50 per cent of projects couldnt sustain their maintainers above the poverty line, while 31 per cent generated enough for a salary considered unacceptable in the industry. The sample size was small (58), but that made these results even more illuminating. It comprised relatively large projects, most with at least one full-time contributor. F...
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