The open source maintainer joke: a decade of unpaid work under a trillion-pound business
kscottz · x · 2026-09-18
iamdevloper's joke: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man an open source library and he maintains it unpaid for a decade while a trillion-pound company quietly builds its entire business on top of it." A sharp jab at unpaid open source maintenance fueling corporate profit.
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