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Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] WebleyFrog@piefed.social 42 points 5 days ago

That amount of money a month is extremely substantial for an open-source project, and especially for a distro. It also far exceeds previous years.

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The pressure mostly seems to be from adding wayland support to Cinnamon, combined with perhaps maintaining more projects at too regular an interval than their team can chew.