Post #3789554
2026-06-04 14:07 UTC
In the recent discussions around rsync I've seen people focusing on whether a maintainer has or doesn't have an obligation towards its users, or whether it's the users' job to maintain something they depend upon. I believe this discussion is missing an important point: the money.
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-06-04 14:07
Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT. 2/4