[happyraul]

How do OSS devs support themselves without money?

[prepend]

I have an employer who pays me to do thing X. And they don’t care that I also work on thing Y a little bit.

I think there’s lots of software written by people who have jobs and code because it’s fun.

For example, Linus Torvalds made Subsurface [0] as open source. He had a job while he made this. He didn’t get paid for it directly, but it’s not like paying him extra would make it better.

[0] https://subsurface-divelog.org/

[xboxnolifes]

The same way you can make model trains and not make money.

[elaus]

Usually they are supported by donations, therefore they don't need to sell their user's data or their software.

[pennomi]

The Stardew Valley gambit - quit programming and take up subsistence farming.

[nolist_policy]

Good luck. Farming is a hard business if you want to make money. And you'll need money for electricity, fuel, medicine, etc.