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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (brennan.day)

submitted 2 weeks ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] misk@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Gentoo does a wild amount of work on $12k per annum but I don’t think $12m is that crazy - if it’s more than you can spend then you can pass it on to your dependencies. We shouldn’t expect open source contributors to do everything as a volunteer effort because then it becomes a rich person pastime. What’s infuriating here is that this $12m goes to people who aren’t exactly doing anything worthwhile.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

what’s infuriating here is that this $12m goes to people who aren’t exactly doing anything worthwhile.

Not to mention DHH is already a millionaire.