• @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      89 months ago

      True, but the bigger the project, the more it’s supported by paid developers. Either from some foundation or else corporate devs whose jobs include contribution to FOSS projects

      • newIdentity
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        09 months ago

        Wasn’t the case for ImageMagick and OpenSSL for a very long time.

          • newIdentity
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            29 months ago

            Well now they got paid after the critical security vulnerability in 2014 (?), but it’s basically just two developers.

            Also don’t confuse OpenSSL with OpenSSH

    • @MinimalistPotato@sh.itjust.works
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      49 months ago

      Yeah this sucks and a lot of projects backed by corporations get “shutdown” (no more maintainer) or the license is changed along the way to a closed one…