I think a good deal of that has to do with what jobs the maintainers are willing to take.
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Almost any maintainer of widely deployed OSS project can get a full time job working at a bigcorp to help maintain it.
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"I'd rather not work at a bigcorp making top dollar" is not de facto a sustainability problem.
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Replying to @wycats
Even bearing in mind Twitter’s nuance problem, that seems like an awfully glib dismissal of the real complications of that prospect.
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It's only glib because it's responding to an overly glib statement of the problem. I agree there's more nuance.
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For example I don't do it! I just think there's plenty of funding by largely locked in undesirable jobs.
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btw I didn't mean to imply that you were being glib. But rather that I was responding to a glib meme.
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I also think it would be good for Patreon et al to be considered more "legitimate" in the OSS community.
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Plus side: actually exists. Actually gives people income. Minus: correlates to status/popularity. Already a minor prob for OSS.
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I think we can deal with minor problems after the major ones are more in hand, but I agree.
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