• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      True, but the bigger the project, the more it’s supported by paid developers. Either from some foundation or else corporate devs whose jobs include contribution to FOSS projects

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        1 year ago

        Wasn’t the case for ImageMagick and OpenSSL for a very long time.

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            1 year ago

            Well now they got paid after the critical security vulnerability in 2014 (?), but it’s basically just two developers.

            Also don’t confuse OpenSSL with OpenSSH