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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

Pay maintainers. Everything else is noise.

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Hello to OSS maintainers and contributors!

As @GitHub's new OSS product manager, I want to hear about the challenges you face and how we could do more to support you. If you'd like to share your perspective, please fill out the form here: github.blog/2019-01-17-let

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

GitHub made... how much? ... being bought by Microsoft. Want to "do more" to support OSS? Give the proceeds to the open source projects that enabled that success. I'll be generous - y'all can keep half.

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

But for serious - if companies actually cared about open source sustainability instead of virtue signaling, they'd turn those massive exits into windfalls for open source maintainers and foundations.

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

My point is this: the root cause of oss burnout is money. The only way to solve it is money. Tech companies make billions off oss and give almost nothing back. They could solve the problem today and barely dent their bottom lines.

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

I'm surprised at how angry this makes me! I think it's because I'm understanding that we were sold a bill of goods. We convinced ourselves that open source was Good For The World when in fact it was Good For Jeff Bezos (etc). We gave diamonds away and got peanuts in return.

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

Capitalism Finds A Way(tm)

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is there any kind of estimate as to how much we'd be talking about there?

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jacob is on mastodon: @jacob@jacobian.org

It'd take less than $1m/yr to make

incredibly sustainable. It's an averagish sized codebase. Let's say a thousand projects out there, that's a billion dollars. Google alone made $33 bn in Q3.

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I don't agree. I've burned out a few times and money hasn't been a factor. I've pushed myself harder than I should have and eventually hit a breaking point. Money wouldn't have solved it, it would have made it worse and increased the pressure.

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