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2026-03-08 21:31 UTC
@mirandah @richlitt @sustainoss I just listened to the podcast, after watching the FOSDEM talk a couple weeks ago, sadly I didn't have time to see it in person! I found it super interesting and insightful, and inspired lots of thinking in me 😅. I am always surprised how little burnout gets talked about, even though it is one of *the* basic and inherent problems of open source, and how people don't want to admit it is and that maybe they are burnt out themselves too actually...
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@lw64@chaos.social 2026-03-08 21:36
@mirandah @richlitt @sustainoss I am active in the Linux Desktop space, and I say that because it is a bit different from average open source. In your talk you mentioned that around 40% of contributors get paid for it. In the desktop space this number is probably massively lower. Its a crazy paradox, even though our software is so immensely popular, and very complex so that you need hundreds of packages and people to build such a product, there is almost no economical incentive in it these days.