The OSS community has yet to come to grips with “Companies with $50 million in the bank send an incredible volume of support requests to people who are worried about making their $600 rent, and the community and culture in OSS makes this feel normal.”https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1067497894394028032 …
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“We need a better way to financially support OSS!” I mean call me the crazy business guy here but how about for-profit enterprises start paying market rates for professional labor?
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As you know I'm in 100% agreement. I do think while there's a lot of cachet to being, say, the company that employs Guido or Rob Pike, it's a much harder social sell to employ the author of left-pad, despite them all being foundational
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Yeah, for the below-the-line stuff I’m happy with folks just writing checks rather than offers. (The world’s upside down where leftpad is important enough to cause an incident in thousands of companies and simultaneously those companies are unwilling to write it a $1,000 check.)
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