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Subject: The Graying of FOSS
From: rbowman
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 01:14 UTC

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From: bowman@montana.com (rbowman)
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Subject: The Graying of FOSS
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Subject: Re: The Graying of FOSS
From: Chris Ahlstrom
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rbowman wrote this post; take it under advisement:

> https://thenewstack.io/open-source-needs-younger-maintainers-how-can-it-get-them/

Probably a company will subsidize maintenance of project(s) they need.

No guarantees.

I'm gonna be gone in an unknown number of years, probably less than 20. :-(

--
....Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly).
-- Matt Welsh

Subject: Re: The Graying of FOSS
From: CrudeSausage
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 13:03 UTC
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On 2024-10-07 9:14 p.m., rbowman wrote:
> https://thenewstack.io/open-source-needs-younger-maintainers-how-can-it-
> get-them/

We've already witnessed what the youth movement in open-source can do,
and now GNOME is going bankrupt. Why improve your interface and come up
with brilliant new ideas when you can hire and empower "diverse" cretins
to run your operation?

--
CrudeSausage
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

You will triumph over your enemy.

comp / comp.os.linux.advocacy / Re: The Graying of FOSS

Subject	Author
The Graying of FOSS	rbowman
Re: The Graying of FOSS	Chris Ahlstrom
Re: The Graying of FOSS	CrudeSausage