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Open Source is not your f**king charity. Treat it like a market! 96% of all software runs on open source. Your phone. Your bank. Every cloud app you use. $8.8 trillion worth of code maintained by people who earn $0. 60% of maintainers are unpaid. Not underpaid. Unpaid. Zero. Fortune 500s build billion dollar products on their code. For free. 77% say they'd prefer to be paid. No path to get there. You know the headlines. You never connected the dots: Heartbleed (2014) One bounds check missing in OpenSSL. 17% of secure web servers exposed. The project? Funded $2,000/year. After disclosure, total donations: $841. Log4Shell (2021) CVSS 10.0. Every Java app on earth affected. Maintainers? Unpaid volunteers patching the internet from their couches on a weekend. Compensation: $0. XZ Utils (2024) Two-year social engineering attack. Sock puppets pressured a solo maintainer until he gave repo access to an attacker. CVSS 10.0 backdoor in Linux. Caught by accident. Almost compromised every Linux system on earth. faker.js (2022) 25M+ weekly downloads. Thousands of companies dependent. The dev snapped and sabotaged everything: "No more free work. Pay me or fork this." This isn't bad luck. This is systemic failure. 60% of maintainers have quit or considered quitting. When they get paid, vulns get fixed 45% faster. 50% fewer bugs. If Heartbleed happened tomorrow, it would play out exactly the same way. Nothing has changed. Every "solution" we have is broken: GitHub Sponsors → tip jar. Research shows it hurts innovation Gitcoin → periodic grants, project-level only Open Collective → 10% cut, still charity Tea Protocol → rewards packages, not the humans writing code All charity. None of them automatically pay individuals for the code they wrote. That's the gap. That's why we built Gitbags. Our bot reads your repo — PRs, commits, reviews. Contributors get weighted by actual work. When the token trades, fees go to the people who wrote the code. Not donations. A market. You can also do ICO fundraise through the app for your project. Name one open source tool you use every day. I bet the maintainer earns $0.

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who’s building on weekend? If so, reply I’ll support

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@swonzon the initial features from part 1 will roll out starting mid next week

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