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		eru 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) Lot of open source software is written by people who get paid for doing so.

guappa 8 months ago [–]

But most is not. Especially not the libraries that are so used.

Some people in big projects are paid contributors, and some company open source some not so useful things as a marketing tool.

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