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Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

87 points Brysonbw | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
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peteforde ◴[02 Apr 25 19:04 UTC] No.43560283[source]▶
The fact that the infrastructure of the world is build on the backs of people who literally cannot make a living wage is a major failure of late-stage capitalism.
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1. tester756 ◴[02 Apr 25 19:45 UTC] No.43560724[source]▶
A lot of people who e.g contribute to Linux are working in big tech