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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
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[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly! In fact, that was the original free software MO. The whole maintainership shenanigans became a thing after companies started exploiting it for free labor.