It happens all the time, a maintainer quits/abandons some opensource project due to economic realities. There are comics, jokes, threads, and so on about what the realities of maintaining opensource software are and that most people are not willing to donate or contribute in any way besides opening issues.

There is a lot of resistance to stuff like the business source license, but people do have to earn a living somehow. Doing so with opensource would be amazing. In lieu of the contested licence, could a template similar to Reminna’s actually work? Basically “pay to get this fixed/implemented, make a PR, or it’s low priority/ ‘I will get to it when I get to it’”.

Relevant part of template 
### Contributions

In return, or to fix this issue, I'd be willing to:

 - [ ] Fix this myself.
 - [ ] [Donate](https://remmina.org/donations/) ___ and/or have donated ___ towards fixing it.
 - [ ] Take a donation of ___ to fix it.
 - [ ] Update the [documentation](https://remmina.gitlab.io/remminadoc.gitlab.io/md__c_o_n_t_r_i_b_u_t_i_n_g.html).
 - [ ] Update the [wiki](https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/wikis/home).
 - [ ] Translate Remmina in my native language(s) (___) on [Hosted Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/remmina/remmina/).

Anti Commercial-AI license

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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      1 hour ago

      I don’t think most of the software industry is functional at this point for the workers actually in the industry so that feels like a loaded question.

      Nothing is working to the degree it needs to, but there are TONS of decade heck even two decade old still in development open soure games and projects… and yes I find those projects far more sustainable along almost every metric than huge AAA gaming or software companies run by people who pay their employees shit and treat them as utterly disposable once their passion has been strip mined out leaving only burnout.

      Compare the shitshow that is ESRI / Arcgis to QGIS that destroys ESRI products in effectiveness and clarity as a tool for most common GIS functions as only one example.

      All that being said I am not happy with the state of things, everything will be better if we more thoroughly and directly support the actual developers doing the work with money, I am still arguing for that.