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Interestingly, they now seem to have ~US$3k/month via Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew

Wonder if they'll use it for paying maintainers or something? It's a useful amount for planning things out with. :)

In a recent podcast I listened to on The Changelog [0], I’m almost positive Mike McQuaid (homebrew creator/maintainer) talks about how they use that money when they cover Homebrew governance.

0:https://changelog.com/podcast/337

Thanks, it was interesting. :)

As a minor data point, the creator of Homebrew was Adam Vandenberg, not Mike McQuaid:

https://github.com/adamv

Incorrect, it's Mike Howell (the invert binary tree guy)

Oops. Sorry about that. :/

Max Howell

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