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Open Source Needs Maintainers. But How Can They Get Paid?

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Re: Open Source Needs Maintainers. But How Can They Get Paid?

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It's not sustainable.

Yes, and water is wet.

From a business perspective, Open Source only makes sense if you're prepared to fully support the code yourself or you are confident you can reliably contract for support.

Otherwise, you're building a support time bomb into your product.