@grainloom

a disturbing thing is that my utility, pkgconf, is basically in most modern unix systems at this point. it is also included in many commercial toolchains. toolchains benefit greatly from pkgconf as a tool. but guess how much pkgconf brings in? $0

not a single commercial vendor who has included pkgconf in their product has ever bothered to pay for maintenance of pkgconf.

the only time I have ever been paid to work on pkgconf is when I was working for a startup, who recognized that pkgconf was a key part of their build system and decided to allow me to use some of my hours to work on pkgconf and other Alpine toolchain issues. but that's indirectly. that's not a company saying "hey pkgconf is a key part of our product, here's $$$ to maintain it."

if pkgconf maintenance were properly funded, that alone, would cover all of my expenses. instead us free software developers all have to set up patreons and stuff because the invention of docker ate all the systems development jobs.