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60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it (self.opensource)
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https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-maintainers-unpaid/

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[–] sus 12 points 1 month ago

It's based on a survey with ~400 responses, and 50% of the responders are in some way affiliated with the surveyer (no information about any methodology is available, it seems more of a marketing stunt than a "serious" survey of the landscape)