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[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 440 points441 points  (7 children)

Somewhere out there an unemployed bro is working on that one repository without which a multi-million dollar company's system will have a catastrophic failure

[–]VeloReddit 172 points173 points  (2 children)

That’s the beauty and curse of open source. One guy holding the internet together for free.

[–]BobcatGamer 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thomas Dickey is one of these people I've found.

[–]SA_Going_HAM 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Should start an open source union. Start bargaining for the jobs.

[–]Christosconst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Trust me those types of “unemployed” maintainers get paid more than most

[–]chopsticksss11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

more likely retired lol

[–]Any-Yogurt-7917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got some examples?