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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.

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[–] 61 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

Eh. We’ve always been unpaid. I guess now everyone is noticing because tech companies make billions off of our work.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Of course. Because when we're all the little guys and helping each other, it's fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    We’re under no obligation to bend to the demands of trillion dollar companies.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Sure. But their deves still create lots of noise in open source projects and you don't always know where they work.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think the burden is that Tech companies are putting in hundred of bug reports, not putting in any work and then expecting their 'high priority' bugs to be fixed last week, for free.

    When it was the community benefiting the community, it was fine to labor for free.

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