• Stumblinbear
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    1 year ago

    It’s good money.

    The Lemmy dev is making around 30k a year. Subtract taxes from that and he’s making maybe 25k (at best).

    They’re very clearly extremely talented software engineers, and you’re telling me $12 an hour is “good money”? That’s not even above minimum wage in many US states! Do you have any idea how much software engineers make?

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t have to be the only thing you do. Where do you think FOSS software comes from?

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        1 year ago

        People working for free, very rarely company sponsorship, or businesses making open source software.