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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
- davehtaylor@beehaw.org1·5 months ago
- The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions
- Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they’re just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn’t a hobby and you can’t work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don’t come together as hobby projects.