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by cycloptic 2340 days ago
>you can't afford to play the but-I-dont-get-paid-card

Yes, you can. The projects that have persisted over the long term have had a long history of people being paid to work on them, Debian included. There is no need to do something to "let other people take over" either. The code is open, you just type "git clone" and boom, now you've taken over.