Unfortunate.

> 60% of maintainers are still unpaid.

That's actually not as bad as I would have guessed.

I'd be curious to know what portion of that 40% makes any meaningful income from their open source work. I would guess that most of those people are being paid a small appreciation amount for the work they're doing, not something resembling a living wage.

	▲	johncolanduoni an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They may be including maintainers who are explicitly employed to maintain the respective projects (e.g. some RedHat employees). This is not common, but not vanishingly rare either.

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VladVladikoff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I had the same thought. Expected it to be like 95%.

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tux3 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait, y'all are getting paid?