FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
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FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
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Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#2This has happened since the first foss project.
Guess us foss programmers are a bunch of phonies
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#3If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#4If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Eh, what, this is not a kitchen. This is a hobby project, a child-toy-kitchen, some people seem to mistaken a a career. Patch is welcome and if you want software work for free, fork it and do your own work on it.
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#5Non-paywall version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220320083930/https://www.busin...
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#6makes you wonder,
babel say they can't live with 300k a year in funding
but the 1000s of projects used by 1000s of devs to build 1000s of things barely get 10$ a month or even a year
OSS donations should be more fairly distributed, not power law, rock star levels, where 1 project can get more funding than 99% of projects.
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#7makes you wonder, babel say they can't live with 300k a year in funding but the 1000s of projects used by 1000s of devs to build 1000s of things barely get 10$ a month or even a year OSS donations should be more fairly distributed, not power law, rock star levels, where 1 project can get more funding than 99% of projects.
But this will never happen
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#8If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Eh, what, this is not a kitchen. This is a hobby project, a child-toy-kitchen, some people seem to mistaken a a career. Patch is welcome and if you want software work for free, fork it and do your own work on it.
The kitchen is real because it produces real food that real people choose to eat. But it is indeed not much of a career, usually.
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#9Just put the project out there under the anonymous author natoshi sakamoto.
If people want to be rewarded, we have invented a mechanism for that thousands of years ago, it's called the market.
Re: FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects
#10makes you wonder, babel say they can't live with 300k a year in funding but the 1000s of projects used by 1000s of devs to build 1000s of things barely get 10$ a month or even a year OSS donations should be more fairly distributed, not power law, rock star levels, where 1 project can get more funding than 99% of projects.
Babel is a massive project which at a point was key for any web project. And 300k is good for how many full time people. In the US maybe 3?
Not that I have any insights, but we should never forget, that we stand on the shoulders of Giants. And the giant is overall massively underpaid.