Weirdly, people think it's okay to pressure people who give them free things. Few people in Big Tech experience the same kind of direct user pressure that people try to exert on voluntary open-source maintainers. We need to change that.
#opensource
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/open_source_maintainers_state_of_open/
Kevin Dominik Korte /
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