It honestly probably has too many Linux developers. I’d love to develop for Linux, but the job market is super competitive, so I work building web apps (hosted on Linux). I have the skills to hack on Linux things (I build desktop Linux apps for fun), there just aren’t many job opportunities.
If I could get paid something close to what I’m making now, but to work on FOSS, I’d do it in a heartbeat. But the options I see are:
- fight like crazy to get one of the handful of jobs
- get paid almost nothing
- not work in FOSS
I don’t have the energy for 1 and 2 won’t work for my family, so I go for 3. I do plan to do 2 once I have enough to not need my current income (current projection is about 10 years).
OK get Linux developers then. we pay for the Software and they asked us what we want them to work on. This is one of the rare cases where Linux users can actually feel entitled to developer attention.
You might be surprised to find out that, just like everywhere else, Linux users are a minority among the Proton userbase.
They need a simple GUI on top of rclone. The madlads of rclone fucking reversed engineered the drive APIs in record time. Now imagine if they were to tosh some money into that project, and then could focus only in GUI.
They didn’t have to reverse engineer the drive API. Proton created an open source library to use their API, which was forked to integrate with Proton-API-Bridge, so that apps could easily use it.
There’s no api, or there was, when rclone implement it.
