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0 pointskortilla1y ago0 comments

Paid people get burnt out as well and they are just as likely to accept free help as an unpaid person.

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That's true, but many of these maintainers work a day job on top of doing the open source work precisely because the open source work doesn't pay the bills. If they could get back 40 hours of their time I think many would appreciate it

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0 pointskortilla1y ago0 comments

Paid people get burnt out as well and they are just as likely to accept free help as an unpaid person.

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Decabytes1y ago

That's true, but many of these maintainers work a day job on top of doing the open source work precisely because the open source work doesn't pay the bills. If they could get back 40 hours of their time I think many would appreciate it

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